SAPS UNLAWFUL CONDUCT: PART 2: CRIMINAL CONDUCT, FABRICATED CHARGES & THE ENFORCEMENT ARM OF A DEFAMATORY CAMPAIGN

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UNLAWFUL CONDUCT OF SERGEANT STEVENS & BELLVILLE COMMERCIAL CRIMES UNIT

The corruption, misconduct, and outright criminality orchestrated by Sergeant Stevens and his associates at the Bellville Commercial Crimes Unit represent the most extreme and egregious example of police corruption imaginable. Police misconduct is not uncommon — officers taking bribes, fabricating evidence, or violating due process to secure a conviction are well-documented abuses of power.

But what happened here surpasses all conventional definitions of corruption. This was not a case of an officer exploiting the system for personal gain or an overzealous cop bending the rules. This was a calculated and sustained abuse of police power, in which law enforcement officers deliberately used their authority to detain me unlawfully, obstruct my legal rights, and facilitate financial crimes against me.

These officers did not act in isolation. Their actions were not driven by the pursuit of justice or even by self-interest, but by a clear and coordinated objective: to ensure my incarceration so that private individuals—specifically, landlords and their associates—could seize control of my properties, eliminate my ability to fight back in civil court, and strip me of the financial resources needed to defend myself. Stevens and his unit worked hand in hand with private investigators and landlords to fabricate criminal charges, manufacture false affidavits, and deliberately mislead the courts.

They manipulated every stage of the legal process, from falsifying immigration records to staging a militarized raid on my home—designed not for law enforcement purposes, but as a public spectacle to legitimize the lies spread by my adversaries.

This chapter presents an unfiltered, fully documented account of their illegal actions, procedural violations, and blatant collusion. The evidence is irrefutable: court records, sworn affidavits, internal SAPS communications, and procedural breaches that expose how law enforcement was weaponized against me. This was not the work of rogue officers making isolated mistakes—this was a systematic and deliberate campaign, executed with precision, with the explicit goal of ensuring my imprisonment and financial ruin for the benefit of those who orchestrated it.

35. The Dossier That Was Created Out Of Their Plan To Create Victims

The plan and purpose of the plan is evidenced by the dossier Mr de Swardt created from the gest’s misery.

Submitting that dossier in the appeal application in which he listed the eleven groups that had turned up expecting to check in and then been told they had been scammed.

These guests who we have spoken to since all tell the same story. Given the speech as above and left in no doubt a call to the platform would be a waste of time.

Not content with causing so much misery and loss, even the dossier itself is a masterclass in fabrication. In the dossier Mr de Swardt and Keith Broad claim of the elven sets of guests all eleven paid into the Cape Exclusive Residences bank account. On checking only two had.

The majority of the guests were not in fact mine, but rather those that Denis Dalton, Johan Schalkwyk and Mario Boffa had either scammed or wer ones they had embezzled the money from.

Of the remainder, one of the two who had paid CEP had made the booking after my arrest.

In summary, just one of the eleven was a booking we had accepted and whose payment we had processed. Yet Mr de Swardt and Keith Broad told the court all eleven were. Of course, omitting to mention the real cause of the guests plight or the fact that when the bookings were taken there were villas on which those bookings would be accommodated.

All of this again highlight the motivation and rationale behind the submission of the appeal and my removal, allowing Keith Broad to bulldoze his appeal through, allowing him to fabricate and misrepresent the content of that application, and do so in the knowledge no lone would be able to expose the lies.

Aided by the fact every item of data, every piece of information and every document were by then locked in a sap’s facility, denying me or my attorneys any opportunity to mount even the most basic defence.

36. The Real Intent And Strategy Of Serg Stevens

The fact that neither Investigating Officer asked any questions also demonstrates that their strategy was to object to bail and stall the start of the bail application. Had they intended for the bail application to be heard they would have had to provide the prosecution with substantial evidence to stand any chance of winning that argument. The docket as it existed fell very very far short of that.

Were mentioned, it contained affidavits misrepresenting the law and that were fundamentally false, as well as the affidavit of Serg Stevens lying about the role of immigration in the arrest, and the only “evidence” to speak of was the three affidavits that had been obtained by one of the landlords I had been in intense battles in the civil courts with. The complete disinterest in obtaining any information, let alone any credible evidence, shows that the facts were to play no part in what followed.

FACT FILE

CORRUPT CONDUCT

Mr. de Swardt’s dossier, used in the appeal, falsely claimed eleven guest groups were scammed and had paid Cape Exclusive Residences. In reality, only two had, and most guests were victims of Denis Dalton, Johan Schalkwyk, and Mario Boffa.

One booking was made after the arrest, and only one was processed by the defendant. The dossier misrepresented facts to justify the appeal, with crucial evidence locked in SAPS custody, preventing a proper defense.

37. Proof Of The Plan By Serg Stevens And Mr De Swardt To Create Victims

What Mr de Swardt and Serg Stevens seems to have missed, is that the dossier they produced is black and white evidence of their own crimes.

They knew what would happen when they did not let the platform know of the change of control, they knew guests would turn up and be homeless. But all they did was take their details for use both in the civil and the criminal courts.

And each time they failed to tell the guest that it was their fault that they were standing their homeless and out of pocket because:

Firstly, it was Serg Stevens along with Mr de Swardt’s who had executed the arrest, (to effect and disguise two illegal evictions), and it was therefore they who were responsible for taking the properties away.
Secondly, they compounded this by not letting the platform know.
So, the list of 11 groups of guests produced by Serg Stevens and Mr de Swardt’s to aid them in the civil and criminal courts is ample proof of both the crime, the victims, and the cost of that plan.
A plan that was intended to impact every single guest who had a booking, which had the potential to be thousands of people.
Interestingly, the platform only took the profiles down in late February because obviously no one had been paying the platform’s invoices.

38. The Goal Was To Imprison Not To Go To Trial

This and much of what I mention above and below, and the contents of the docket as well as their conduct throughout demonstrate that the “investigation,” the docket, the charges and the arrest had nothing to do with my committing crimes and everything to do with the owners very well-funded and resourced campaign to take the properties back.

Because such moves were illegal this necessitated that I be removed and for a decent enough period to consolidate the theft.

My continued detention was the goal in and of itself, with no intention of getting to a trial. As it stood, any advocate would have torn the Investigating Officer and the prosecution’s case to pieces. There would have been a very real need to add substantially to the docket. Yet, despite having had a full three months after t arrest to add to the docket, no investigation took place, and nothing was added.

ANTON MOLLER AFFIDAVIT

KEITH BROAD'S AGENT

From the point at which the profiles are suspended, frozen, removed, deactivated, or paused, the platform contacted every guest who had a booking for any dates from that date forward, capturing every booking and guest. The platform then either found them alternative villa options for their dates or provided refunds.

That is exactly how the system should work and that is exactly how the system would have worked as soon as Serg Stevens had contacted the platform …. Except he did not contact the platform. And the guaranteed result of not contacting them was the arrival of every guest who had made booking prior to my arrest. And even some who had made bookings after my arrest.

Serg Stevens and Mr de Swardt felt their misery, distress, and significant losses was a price they were happy to pay for some small strategic advantage in the civil and criminal courts.

39. December 19 – The First Appearance:

This unlawful, unethical, and very serious misconduct continued and escalated when I appeared at Wynberg Mag Court, where the judge read the file and then granted me bail of R2000, with no conditions.

The paperwork was completed and signed by the Magistrate, and they were finished with me when the Investigating Officer Sergeant Stevens (on the instruction of his ‘master Mr de Swardt) objected to bail and insisted that the prosecution change their stance and object.

Sergeant Stevens attempted to have bail declined by telling three very significant lies.

Firstly, that “five new charges had come in” – this was entirely untrue.

Secondly, that there were “serious issues from Paarl” - this was also entirely untrue.

Thirdly, I had intentionally evaded extending my visa, was in the country illegally, was wanted for deportation by the Home Affairs Department and was a flight risk. All of which were untrue. As well as impossible, and as Sergeant Stevens had my passport. Yet again, a fact he omitted to mention.

As a result, the bail was simply rescinded.

What should have happened at that point, was that Sergeant Stevens should have charged me for these supposed five new charges and sought my arrest and detention afresh based on those. Had there been genuine then bail would likely have been declined. But he did not do that, because they did not exist.

This significant breach of due process, and the illegal and immoral tactic of lying to secure the desired outcome resulted in my being sent to Pollsmoor prison, where thanks to the further efforts of Sergeant Stevens I remained for three months.

In regard to those specific lies,

“five new charges had come in” – twenty months later – nothing was ever heard of these charges after that day.
“serious issues from Paarl” – no one knew what that meant on the day, or in the months since and no one has any idea even now.
“I had intentionally evaded extending my visa, was in the country illegally, was wanted for deportation by the Home Affairs Department and was a flight risk.” Already covered in detail

FACT FILE

CORRUPT CONDUCT

Not one shred of evidence exists in the docket or anywhere else that any of the reasons given were anything other than fabrications made up on the spot in a panic to scupper the bail that had been granted.

Crucially, we only saw the docket in June 2022, a full seven months after the arrest. As such, if any of the statements made by Sergeant Stevens were true, there would be evidence of them in the docket.

But what passed for evidence in the docket was by then more than a year old (the case to which they referred was a year and a half old) and nothing had been added to the docket in the year since.

40. Remand Period: Before The Start of The Bail Application. The Unlawful Detention, And the Crimes Committed To Extend It

Despite the fact it was an “Urgent Bail Application,” Sergeant Stevens was able to extend the period of remand very significantly. By a full three months in the end. And did so by perjuring himself.

As an example, the urgent bail application of August 2023 started immediately. I was arrested on 4 August, after managing to keep me much longer than permitted (keeping three days beyond the 48-hour maximum with no attempt to justify that) Hout Bay SAPS took me to Wynberg Mag Court on 9 August.

We had expected Bail to be granted, and that I would go home. However, Mr de Swardt and the Investigating Officer had suddenly totally changed the charges from the theft of three old tvs to the junk contents of one of the rooms. Then they changed it again to say rather than junk it was highly valuable items including Krugerrands and cash valued at 835,000.

This fabrication was to make the offence a Schedule 5 offence thereby making a make a bail application significantly more difficult. Which they knew would have the effect of necessitating what I can only describe as a mini trial. That process added a further two weeks.

To draw a parallel with the second arrest, when the bail application was due to start and the Investigating Officer finally let everyone see the charges, the prosecution withdrew them.

The point is that the immediate withdrawal by the prosecution showed there was no prospect of success and therefore it is self-evidently the case that without such a stunt, or in the case of Sergeant Stevens's obstruction of justice and the demonstrably false statements he made on 19 December, I would have gone home that day.

But even without the stunts and attempts to obstruct and frustrate justice on 19 December, I would have been home within a month, had the proceedings followed any normal or reasonable bail application. But this was not a normal or reasonable bail application, and instead, Serg Stevens managed to delay matters by three months and tried his best to delay it still further, with anything he could think of that may

"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved."

- Henry Adams

41. Imbalance of Power.

In such a situation, where the Investigating Officer holds all the cards, if the Investigating Officer chooses to make an allegation, the accused must produce enough evidence to disprove it, sufficient enough to win a bail application.

But when an Investigating Officer has no qualms in literally fabricating allegations, it is extremely hard to counter and this abuse of due process and the imbalance of power, turns a justice system into a joke, but one that is terrifying for the accused.

When that same Investigating Officer will not even confirm what the accused is charged with, it is impossible to prepare bail application.

When that same Investigating Officer has ensured that the accused devices, equipment, data, and documents have been confiscated and neither these or the data on them is available to the accused or his attorneys then there is absolutely no prospect of a fair application.

When that same Investigating Officer is feeding prosecutions lies, and when those lies change constantly, then he is creating an absolutely hopeless position for the accused.

42. The Significance And Purpose Of The Crimes Serg Stevens Committed.

The actions of Serg Stevens were far more significant, serious, and extreme than simple perjury. Or even the crimes of obstructing, interfering, with, frustrating or defeating justice.

And the crimes do not end there, because these were also a means to achieving the end goal. That of illegally evicting a legitimate tenant from their property.

To facilitate further crimes enabling the theft of his home, his assets, his possessions, and his artwork.

And steal the premiums in rental income and capital values.

To do so for private individuals by knowingly using and abusing your powers as a police officer to make these crimes possible.

To further then use and abuse your powers as a police officer to give these private individuals protection from any consequences for their crimes.

And in enabling all of this, allowing them to void, subvert, and ignore the legal routes to remedy, the laws related to the rights of tenants and individuals and do so contrary to all proper due process.

And on top of all this, to use the criminal justice system itself to achieve those goals, and to use his position, the power of the police and the criminal justice system to legitimise the outcomes.

In other words, each crime Serg Stevens committed, each breach of the codes of ethics, and each unlawful or immoral act was for and in aid of broader equally criminal objectives and were interlinked to each other.

As well was premeditated, carefully planned, executed for strategic advantage and in full knowledge of the consequences, because it was the consequences of his crimes that were their purpose.

Serg Stevens cannot claim that what happened as a result of his actions and crimes was collateral, unintended or unforeseeable damage because what happened as a result of his crimes was the intended result.

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THE CONSORTIUM

These are often where someone has acted in a way that has the result of impeding the operation of the legal system, hindered the judicial process, conducted, and aimed at preventing the proper administration of justice, and actions that disrupt the judicial process. I.e. The actions are the end in and of itself.

For Sergeant Stevens and Serg Duna, the many occasions on which they committed these crimes were the means to a different end. That end being the additional crimes of knowingly unlawfully arresting someone, knowingly unlawfully detaining someone, knowingly unlawfully trying to artificially and unlawfully extend their detention.

43. Bail Application Appearances, Serg Stevens Attempts To Extend Detention

The next appearance was scheduled for 6 January 2023. Present at the hearing were Sergeant Stevens, Mr de Swardt, and the attorney for Keith Broad and Raj Moonsamy (the owners of the two properties in Llandudno that Serg Stevens had taken possession of, cleared of all occupants, and handed them the keys for). Sergeant Stevens, Mr de Swardt, the owners, and their attorney worked closely together before, during and after the arrest.

During that hearing the magistrate was told that I could not use either property as a bail address. This was illegal, as both properties were mine, I had sole rights of occupation, with valid leases with years left to run, there was no court order granting anyone possession, and I even had an interdict on 16 Leirmans against Keith Broad and anyone connected with him in any way, going anywhere near the property. And on 32 FB I had just paid R250,000 in rent a few days before the arrest, on top of the R1.5 million in rent, deposit and utilities paid before that point.

But Sergeant Stevens was aware of the powerful effect a contested bail address would have, to achieve bail certain basic conditions are essential, including that the accused will not interfere with a witness, will not repeat the offence, and has an address acceptable to the court. A bail address cannot have complications and question marks over it. Because that was not the time nor the forum to discuss the merits of the legal occupation and add to a mini-trial a version of spoliation proceedings, the attorney's advice was that their statement had no merit in law, that, that the manoeuvre was illegal (misrepresenting to the court I had no right of occupation) and that if the matters were debated in any court, I would win the point, BUT it would add additional time to the bail application while those arguments took place. So, having removed both my homes as bail addressed, we had to go back to the drawing board with no obvious solution.

Serg Stevens knew I had a home; he had arrested me in it. He also knew the whole purpose of the actions against me was to take those homes from me illegally, because I was the legal tenant, and no court would award the owners possession. So, the lies to the court were even more disingenuous because the lies were told to achieve what they were telling the court was already the case.

FACT FILE

THE CONSORTIUM

At the 6 January 2023 hearing, Sergeant Stevens, Mr. de Swardt, and the attorneys for property owners Keith Broad and Raj Moonsamy falsely claimed the defendant could not use either of their legally leased properties as a bail address. Despite valid long-term leases and an interdict against Broad, the claim was used to complicate the bail process. This maneuver, though legally baseless, forced a delay in securing bail, as a valid address is a key requirement. The intent was clear: to unlawfully strip the defendant of possession without a court ruling.

44. Serg Stevens Continued Lies To The Court

In addition, at the 6 January appearance, to complicate matters further, Sergeant Stevens said he needed more time for “further investigation” and that they intended to add “money laundering” charges. I knew at the time it was simply another lie and another stunt to delay matters. There had been no laundering or even a hint of laundering.

NEVER HEARD OF AGAIN.

This was a continuation of the pattern of perjury, obstruction and frustration of justice, fabrication of evidence and the failures to follow due process that had been and would continue to be the basis on which both Investigating Officers conducted themselves throughout the entire process, and almost without exception.

In the testimony and submissions of Serg Duna and Sergeant Stevens, I struggled to find a single truthful statement under cross-examination in the first bail application.

When the advocate pressed the Investigating Officer to confirm had provided him with the folder of notes he would refer to before answering every question the Investigating Officer admitted it had come from Mr de Swardt.

When pressed further as to whether before and after each of the many appearances Mr de Swardt has prepped and instructed him as to what to say the Investigating Officer acknowledged that he had.

When my advocate confirmed to the court that the items in question had not been stolen but we in professional safe storage with the full knowledge of the landlord who I had put on the account with unlimited access, the magistrate instructed the Investigating Officer to go to that unit, as the findings would show immediately which side was telling the truth. In the 3-4 days between appearances so that the Investigating Officer had more than sufficient time when the court reconvened the Investigating Officer admitted he had not even gone. The magistrate was furious, and rather than end the malicious prosecution the bail application had to continue to a conclusion.

The extent, extreme nature and significance of the lies told by Sergeant Stevens and Sergeant Duna stunned even the attorneys. Far more used to criminal proceedings than I was, but when I asked how it is even possible that police officers can act in such an extreme and criminal way, with such arrogance, and not the slightest concern they would ever face the consequences of their actions, the attorneys said that unfortunately in SA, that is often the reality. That a fraction of the offences the police commit is reported, and even fewer are investigated, of those investigated the majority do not make it to completion or a meaningful finish line. Of those few that do often the officer’s mange to get acquittals, and of those few that make it to the end and are found guilty, the penalties are astonishingly light. Far lighter than any citizen would expect to receive for the same offence. In other words, the amount of police officers who are ever brought to book is a fraction of 1% of all crimes committed by police officers and those who are found guilty can expect to escape suitable punishment. Meaning the vast majority stay in their positions.

I have to admit I found this shocking and surreal. That you are incalculably better off committing crimes if you are a police officer than a private individual would seem to be the very definition of injustice. As well as a huge and continuing incentive for police officers to commit crimes.

And as used to corrupt and criminal police officers as the attorneys where I remember feeling very worried when they said that they had never come across such brazen abuses and ones that were so well coordinated.

As an indication of how little the corrupt offices fear repercussions when Sergeant Stevens arrested me and we walked through the area of my office that had dozens of big notes on the wall as reminders, Sergeant Stevens pointed to the one that said “Paula Disberry”, and asked why that was included, I said, “to complain about the illegal August arrest”. He laughed in my face, and said “pathetic”, ”you’re wasting your time.”

FACT FILE

THE CONSORTIUM

The Investigating Officer ignored direct court orders to verify key evidence, frustrating due process. Attorneys noted the rarity of police accountability in South Africa, with only a fraction of reported misconduct cases leading to consequences. The brazen nature of the abuses shocked even legal professionals, highlighting systemic corruption.

45. Obstruction And Perjury

The matter was pushed back again, by almost a month, to 2 February 2023. At that appearance, Sergeant Stevens again said they were not ready and needed “more time for further investigation".

This time the excuse was that they needed to apply for my bank record and phone bills.

Even though they had had a year in which to do that.

And they had had six weeks since the arrest to do it.

The magistrate was very unhappy with Sergeant Stevens and his tactics and specifically commented that this was an “urgent bail application” which by definition means it was urgent, and he saw neither any signs of urgency nor was very concerned that it all seemed anything but urgent. Referencing the time I had already spent in Pollsmoor.

Despite being on the urgent roll, the defendant had already spent almost two months in custody and the bail application had not even begun.

And by the fact the prosecution had been manipulated into objecting to bail there is an onus on the police the courts, and the prosecution to expedite matters, to justify and validate that objection. Especially because if the courts find that the objection is it be overruled then every day the accused spends in prison is a day that they should not have.

To ensure Sergeant Stevens could not delay matters further, he laid down a timetable. By the next hearing date, everyone must be ready to name a start date and be in a position to start, the Investigating Officer Sergeant Stevens must decide what the defendant is being charged with and have the details of the charges and the dockets delivered to the prosecution and defence no later than 28 February. The magistrate set 9 February as the next appearance date to confirm all of this.

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THE CONSORTIUM

The bail hearing was delayed again until 2 February 2023, with Sergeant Stevens citing the need for bank and phone records—despite having a year to obtain them. The magistrate criticized the lack of urgency, especially given the defendant had already spent two months in custody.

Recognizing the stalling tactics, the magistrate set strict deadlines: all charges and dockets had to be finalized by 28 February, with a follow-up hearing on 9 February to ensure compliance.

46. More Intentional Failures To Follow Due Process

On 9 February everyone did confirm that they were ready to go, although the Investigating Officer Sergeant Stevens had still not confirmed what the charges would be, and pushed for the bail application to start as far into the future as the court would tolerate. A date of 13 March was agreed. Adding almost another month to my detention

47. Contempt of Court

To my knowledge, in contempt of the direction of the magistrate, Sergeant Stevens failed to confirm the charges on 28 February as directed.

The Delayed Start of the Bail Hearing and the Three Months of Pollsmoor Prison That Resulted:

On 13 March 2023, I was taken to Wynberg Mag Court, and Sergeant Stevens finally confirmed the charges.

Serg Stevens had managed to keep the docket, its contents, and the charges a secret for the full three months.

The charges were the same as they had been at the arrest.

There were none of the additional five fraud charges Sergeant Stevens had stated categorically were in additional to the other charges,

There were no charges, or anything remotely related to Paarl, where Serg Stevens had said significant matters were coming from.

There were no money laundering charges.

An examination of the docket months later when we were finally allowed to see it showed they had not attempted to even ask for bank or phone records.

And in support of those charges all the docket contained were three affidavits dated nine months prior, that Paula Disberry had helped provide at the height of our fight with each other in the civil courts. Quite bizarrely managing to get all three signed and witnessed on the same day as each other’s and hers even though everyone was in a different country.

The attorney commented that they had never seen such a slim docket, even for minor crimes, but that but had to have been the slimmest docket in history about charges of fraud.

Within thirty minutes the advocate returned to the court cells to tell me all the charges had been withdrawn before the application had even started.

WOUTER DE SWARDT: ONLINE REVIEWS

We have few printable words for Wouter de Swardt, and many that are not printable. Skelm, fraudster, scam artist, criminal, conman, crooked, corrupt, thief, imposter are a few of those that are printable. Mr professional private security professional de Swardt was paid to ruin my sister, and he did so very effectively. When we had him investigated what we found made our blood run cold. He has established a nice little niche for himself with friends at Media24 and possibly Naspers, as well as the police. Don’t be fooled by the professional credentials, smart suits or grey hair.

JOHANNA .F

48. Another Malicious Prosecution

As part of that continued attempt to keep extending my detention, the Serg Stevens insisted an immigration charge be added and prosecuted.

The attorney commented that the ”investigating officer is relentless, immovable and has no interest in anything we or the prosecution have to say”, one of the attorneys who didn’t know the background said, “ the man was obsessed with keeping you in prison”, both were furious that Sergeant Stevens had been successful in achieving just that for three months, with “smoke and mirrors”, a polite way of telling lies.

The attorney took the view that as the immigration charge could be dealt with at a later date, was not significant and as the prosecution had confirmed that they would not object to bail for a charge like that, it was best to leave disputing that until after I was released from Pollsmoor, rather than risk spending any more time in that place.

49. Continued Attempts to Unlawfully Detain And Extend An Unlawful Detention

It was assumed the attempts by Sergeant Stevens to extend incarceration were finally over. But in one last attempt he demanded a bail sum of R100,000. Fortunately, the magistrate, prosecution and advocate had begun to get a sense of the real motivation at play. My advocate argued that a bail of R100,000 had no bearing on the offence, would be extreme even in the most serious of cases, and was intentionally punitive. Importantly he argued that bail of R100,000 was the same in effect as not granting at all. The magistrates agreed and bail was set at R10,000.

Serg Stevens had no possible justification for the demand for bail at such a figure. The charge he insisted upon, was one count of a breach of the immigration act. In no conceivable scenario would an Investigating Officer demand a bail of that figure for that offence. Again, speaking to his true motivation.

And that is before one even factor in the fact that the charge he insisted upon, was.

Wholly false and secondly, he had my passport in his possession, which he did not reveal to the prosecution. A passport that showed that the charge to be bogus, unlawful, and untrue. A passport which by that point had been illegally withheld for over a year.

He also had within the docket, which we had yet to see, affidavits from the HAD, which had attached to them further proof this new charge was entirely bogus.

50. Both Magistrate Recommend an Investigation

Interestingly, in the first bail application, the magistrate was so unhappy with the circumstances, matter, the case, especially the Investigating Officer very significantly, and the Investigating Officers testimony very specifically, that after he had finished his summing up that was scathing about both the Investigating Officer and the case, he called for an investigation.

And as the magistrate was discussing bail with the defence and prosecution the magistrate in the December to March bail application did exactly the same, calling for an investigation.

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Thomas Jefferson

51. The Impact of Serg Stevens’s Conduct On Me

I left Pollsmoor on 14 March 2023. Exactly three months after the arrest.

Less than a year earlier before the campaign really got underway, I had six very large, very luxurious residences including in Camps Bay. Llandudno, Hot Bay, that I had transformed, spending a year of my life working 18-hour days every day. And spending my life savings in the process.

Having been the one identify and execute the opportunity, to take all the risks, do all of the work, meet the entire cost myself I had created a collection of properties that even on the most conservative estimates would have generated twenty million a year in profits as a result.

We had Super Host status via Airbnb, Preferred Partner Plus status on Booking.com, and hundreds of 10/10 and 5/5-star reviews from dozens of guests who had stayed and had a fantastic time. We had lovely hard-working staff who ran the lettings and the management of the portfolio and the guest experience.

I had a beautiful home. One that I shared with my three dogs. Where finally after years of working every day of the year, obscene hours, etc I thought I could relax a little and enjoy the fruits of my labour.

But that was before the landlords managed to enlist the unquestioning assistance of Belville Commercial, Sergeant Stevens, Serg Duna, Hout Bay SAPS.

I did not have a cent to my name.
My bank account had been closed.
My home had been taken.
My dogs had been taken.
Even my jewellery had been taken.
The landlords of both properties, i.e. The ones who had instructed the arrest, had taken both properties and every single item within them. All told some 1,500+ items with a value in excess of R4 million. Even my books, clothes, furniture, accessories, and my artwork.
My new home was a tiny room at the back of a house belonging to my attorney that he had offered when we needed a bail address to be able to get bail at the 13 March appearance when Serg Stevens added the immigration charge. And even that was only for a week until the new tenants moved into the house itself.
All of my devices, laptops, phones, hard drives, documents had been seized and Serg Stevens was refusing to return them.
With no money, no phone, no laptop, mounting a defence or investigating what had been done to me was a near impossibility. And without money, phone, or laptop there was no way to rebuild my life or even apply for a job.

And for good measure, Mr de Swardt had destroyed my reputation with his fabricated stories in the Media24 publications. Aided as always by the special relationships he enjoys with certain SAPS officers.

Sergeant Stevens had taken my liberty, kept me in prison for months, and made all of the above possible.

Without his involvement and his ability to hijack the power of the state, in particular the police and criminal justice system, to aid private individuals in an entirely private and selfish campaign to rob me of millions and deceive everyone in the process, pretty much none of what they achieved would have been possible.

It was because what they were doing and wanted to achieve were highly illegal that the normal routes to taking over or taking back a property were not available to them. Ironically, because their goals and methods were highly illegal, they used the police to achieve them.

And in doing so they legitimised their illegal conduct.

Providing protection and impunity from the consequences.

And positioning me as the villain, with them as the victim

And all that achieved far faster and far cheaper than any other route and funded almost entirely by the South African taxpayer.

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CORRUPT CONDUCT

Because of the conduct of Serg Stevens, on leaving Pollsmoor all that I had quite literally were the clothes on my back. The same clothes I was arrested in three months earlier, that were filthy, falling apart, full of lice, and far too large due to loosing almost a quarter of my bodyweight.

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CORRUPT CONDUCT

52. The Impact of Serg Stevens’s Conduct on Others – The Real Victims

I was not the only one affected by the conduct of Serg Stevens and Belville Commercial Crime.

The more than one hundred guests who arrived post my arrest who Serg Stevens had purposely turned from guests to victims, all of whom left stranded, homeless, and out of pocket.

Ollie Sokanyile, who was made homeless the day Mr de Swardt, Serg Stevens and Denis Dalton illegally took over the property.

Ollie Sokanyile again, who was unlawfully arrested, taken to Hout Bay where he was unlawfully kept for a week, then taken to Wynberg where they tried to send him to prison.

Markus, 16 Leirmans Housekeeper, who was unlawfully arrested, handcuffed, and told he would be shot if he caused problems, then taken from his home, made homeless, left to walk to Hout Bay to find somewhere to live.

Ollie Sokanyile’s girlfriend, mad homes on 14 December and told to leave immediately or be arrested.

The housekeepers, who lost their jobs.

The managerial staff, contacted by Belville Commercial Crime and scared out of their minds, and left, thereby losing their jobs, and scared they were about to be arrested.

Chandre Abrahams, pursued, victimised, harassment and intimidated, threatened with ten to thirty years in prison unless she signed witness statements written for her.

The victims of assault and eviction of July 2022 who Hout Bay turned away and refused to take their statements, and then refused to act on the charges aid at Central Cape Town SAPS

My mum who had to fund my legal fees after the second arrest whose debt remains as the means by which I could repay the loan was taken from me.

Any of the 2022 guests scared off by being contacted by the consortium and or Belville Commercial Crime.

And there are many more victims...

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By the time of release on 14 March 2023—three months after the arrest—the defendant had lost everything. Once the owner of a thriving luxury rental business generating potential annual profits of R20 million, they were left with no home, no money, no possessions, and no reputation.

Their properties, belongings, and even dogs were taken, while media defamation further destroyed their credibility. Sergeant Stevens’ abuse of power enabled private landlords to achieve an illegal takeover through state-backed force, positioning the defendant as the villain while they escaped accountability—all at the taxpayer's expense.

53. Pollsmoor Prison

Anyone who has seen Pollsmoor Prison and I mean inside the prison, not the sanitised visitors area will appreciate how horrific even a day in that place is.

I was locked in a cell of 45+ men, in a cell made for 15 men.

It was so cramped the only space you have is your bed.

I was the only white guy of the several hundred on my wing and one of only a handful of the 7,000 inmates.

All of whom are treated like vermin by the guards.

We got 30 minutes out of the cell per week. So just 6 hours over the three months.

When I left, I actually could not stand properly I had used my legs so little.

The cells are infested with lice and cockroaches.

Our cell was raided by the STF, who punched, kicked and electrocuted inmates.

Making calls was impossible, contact with the outside world equally impossible.

Food consisted of a tiny bowl of porridge at 8am, then some rice with remnants of a protein and some bread for lunch at midday, then nothing until 8am the next morning.

I had to transfer myself into a gang dominated cell to be able to make the first call.

The appearances at court were horrific, an experience that starts at 5am the morning of the appearance involves transportation to the courts, in vans filled three times capacity, locked in the cells under the courts so packed you can only stand, on each occasion the gang members rob the newbies, taken to holding cells for the appearance, then repeating the experience in reverse, returning to Pollsmoor, stripped naked and searched, put in a holding cells and finally returning to your own cell at circa 11am the next day. Thirty hours after leaving it.

Given the experiences here I was lucky to get out alive.

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Every item of equopment, data and docuemtns had been seized at my home during the raid and arrest. I was in Pollsmoor with no contact with the outside world and only very occasional and far too short meetings with the attorneys. My passport was illegally held by Sergeant Stevens.

As such, the only record of my visa extension and my right to be in SA through to 2022 was therefore the hardcopy visa stamp inside my passport. Sergeant Stevens was aware of that fact, which is why he was confident/arrogant enough to tell lies to the courts the prosecution and even my defence attorneys. I had no way to prove my statements, as Sergeant Stevens had every means by which I could do that. And he fully exploited that.

54. Compounding The Losses and Damage

As if Serg Stevens, Belville Commercial Crime et al had not taken enough from me, they have denied me the ability to report crimes and further made concerted efforts to thwart me doing so.

Having seized and failed to return my equipment o which much of the evidence was stored, they handicapper me significantly.
On each occasion we or others attempted to report crimes we were either thwarted, rejected out of hand or the docket buried.
When the housekeepers went to Hout Bay to report the assaults, they were first given demonstrably false reasons why the police could not accept the charges and then literally thrown put.
When they went to central cape town saps to lay the charges, the docket was sent to Hout Bay saps who binned it.
When I tried to report the theft of my jewellery to Hout Bay SAPS they refused to help.
And they also stated that as any docket would come to them because Llandudno was within their jurisdiction, they would also make sure it was buried.
With Belville Commercial Crime, Hout Bay and Camps Bay firmly within sphere of difluence of Mr de Swardt I stand no chance of having any charges accepted or any matters investigated.

Seizure and Data, Failure to Return Equipment After 20 Months.

If the seizure were for an investigation whether legal or illegal SAPS could have copied the drives and returned the equipment. The retention of vital data as well as expensive devices disabled my ability to regain any semblance of a normal life.

As at the time of drafting this document SAPS still illegally hold all of the above devices, equipment, data, documents, and phones. Necessitating the purchase of a new laptop and phone. Unnecessary expenditure at a time when it could be least afforded, while SAPS held over R100,000 of equipment.
Everything should have been returned when the charges were dropped in March 2023. SAPS kept them on the basis of further investigation, which is in itself illegal. And then similarly tried to justify the retention because of the bogus immigration charge. But even when that was withdrawn, they refused to return anything. Their attitude had “well sue us for it.”
And whilst court action would be almost certain to result in a court order to return everything, as well as a costs order against the state (and yet more expense to the taxpayer), the client was not in a position to fund another R100,000 in legal fees.
The warrant of arrest and the seizure warrant related solely to the three fraud charges. As soon as those charges were withdrawn the police should have returned all the equipment, devices, documents, and information. Not only did they fail to do so, but then despite a number of requests and eventually formal demands they point blank refused. Despite having no legal grounds whatsoever for their stance.

If the Fraud Allegation Were Genuine Why Have SAPS not Already Downloaded Data.

I so not think it in any way controversial to say that where an arrest has genuinely been made for fraud, then one of the primary roles of the police, if not the primary role is to ensure there are no more victims. If the scam were for a bogus hotel, taking reservations for a place that did not exist, the police would both try to get hold of any victims as soon as possible, but also ensure that there were no more victims, by pulling down the advertisements and informing booked guest they need to make alternative plans. The same would apply to a food wholesaler defrauding customers by selling them dodgy or contaminated food. Immediately after an arrest, you would track and trace customers., both those already affected and those likely to be affected.

Whatever the scam, whether fake airline tickets, dodgy credit cards, etc, the police do not close their operation when an arrest has been made. Often in fact the majority of the investigation starts once an arrest has been made and additionally once files, devices, data, and documents have been seized.

I cannot think of a single example of an investigation, especially one into fraud, where the operation ceases once the accused is arrested. Other than the false affidavit of Sergeant Stevens , the docket has not one single new or additional piece of evidence or activity after my arrest.

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The fact that saps had not downloaded the data six, or twelve or eighteen months after the arrest show that there was nothing genuine about the arrest at all.

55. Direct & Precise Correlation Between Police Activity & Cessation Of Activity With The Landlords Campaign & Goals

Given the state and particularly the SAPS officer’s extensive criminality, along with the evident collusion and corruption, it is reasonable to assume they were keen to minimize my access to evidence.

Theoretically, all activities, including those involving various SAPS officers, investigations, charges, and court appearances, should have continued regardless of the landlords’ success or failure in achieving their goals
If they claim that the two issues—A) landlords regaining their properties and B) arrests and detentions—are completely unrelated, then the fact that the owners regained their properties should have had no impact on the criminal investigations, charges, court appearances, or overall activity.
However, since the final properties were reclaimed and secured, all SAPS activities, charges, attempts at arrest, and detentions have ceased entirely.
Analysing the activities of each landlord and their respective campaigns reveals that their contributions and efforts peak during their attempts to reclaim the properties and cease once they have succeeded.

For PD, the conflict period was December 2021 through October 2022. Essentially the period:

PD and Benette became active when the third lease period approached, with the earliest termination date being March 2022.
During the period of May/June, when it became clear that I intended to contest her attempts to take back the property through the civil courts, she contributed the affidavit and other documents she had solicited.
She and KB saw the arrest in August as their best chance to reclaim the properties.
And then September/October, when, after having experienced the horror of Pollsmoor and the realisation of what the landlords were not just capable of but prepared to do, I offered her back her property, and a settlement agreement was signed.
Once PD achieved her goal, her activity, her "help" for the investigation, and the activity of those SAPS officers she worked with, ceased entirely.

For KB, the pattern is the same, with his own activity spanning December 2021 through April 2023.

With his own direct efforts of the two-pronged approach of direct illegal action and the 'legal' action of December 2021 to June 2022.
Having failed, his appointment of Wouter de Swardt around June 2022 signalled a shift in the campaign's direction, and the onboarding of SAPS led to the first of two significant eviction attempts in July 2022. This was followed by my spoliation proceedings, his malicious prosecution, and attempts to bury me in Pollsmoor as retaliation.
Followed by the relative lull as we awaited the November hearing, which, after he lost it in early December, led to the second significant attempt to take over the property and remove me as an opponent.
That attempt from December 2022 to March 2023 directly correlated with his application in the High Court
Once KB achieved his goal, which was crystallized in April 2023, his activity, his "help" for the investigation, and the activity of the SAPS officers he worked with ceased entirely.

For RM, the pattern is also the same.

Having stayed out of the campaign in any significant way for the majority of 2021 and 2022 in the knowledge I had paid a year’s rent in advance, meaning no action by him or by SAPS on his behalf could result in securing and keeping the property, his opportunity would only present itself on the expiry of that lease year and only if the rent for the entirety of the next year was not paid in advance.
His assistance was crucial because he wielded significant influence with SAPS, particularly in Hout Bay, and he had made it clear that an arrest was unacceptable for as long as it suited him. I remain the tenant.
His actions started in November 2022 as the month of December drew near. The combination of KB/WOUTER DE SWARDT successfully persuading him about my criminality, his window of opportunity from 10 December to 17 December for the remaining payment, and the desire of his friends, the new owners, to move in earlier than expected around 20 December, led to his approval in the first week of December.
And his help continued from the arrest through to the bail application, correlating with the period needed to consolidate and secure the takeover of the property.
Once RM achieved his goal in March 2023, his activities, including his "help" for the investigation and the activities of the SAPS officers he worked with, ceased entirely.

And crucially for SAPS, the pattern of activity, whether of individual officers of units or stations, directly correlates with the activity, timetable, and needs of those same private individuals.

The involvement of Belville Commercial by PD as her efforts intensified and the only docket activity of June 2022 directly correlating with the peak of his attempts.
The July/August malicious prosecution, arrest, and detention, correlating with KB's attempts to take the property and deflect my attempts at recovery.
The December arrest and detention correlating with the tiny window of opportunity that RM had and (10-17 December) the equally tiny window of opportunity KB had (6 to 16 December.
The December to March remand correlating with RM’s need to secure and legitimise the unlawful takeover and KB’s need to get his appeal through the civil courts through to a successful outcome with me as an opponent.

The attempts to continue with the impression of going to trial on the immigration matter and the illegal and continued retention of my equipment were more about handicapping any chance I had of either recovery, litigation against those involved, or reporting their criminality than they were about any real intent to hold a trial.

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If SAPS and Serg Stevens suggest that all these needs, wants, spikes in activity, and lulls—both individually and collectively—are coincidental, then we are looking at odds similar to winning the lottery.

Consider the sheer number of coincidences: the simultaneous cessation of SAPS activities, charges, and detentions exactly when the landlords regained their properties; the synchronized peaks in landlords’ efforts and SAPS actions during property reclamation; and the abrupt halts in both once the properties were secured.

The statistical improbability of all these events aligning purely by chance is astronomical. Each instance of activity and inactivity, each arrest and release, and each investigation and its sudden

56. Fraud Charges And The Docket

The docket was inadequate even to justify or motivate an arrest, evidenced by the rejection of the request for an arrest warrant by the magistrate. It was inadequate even to justify the prosecution service started a contested bail application. This is a damming indictment given the low bar set in South Africa where the system operates differently to that of the U.K. where you must pass a high evidential bar before arresting and certainly before charging whereas in SA you can arrest and then gather evidence. But considering it failed the two most basic and easiest tests, how then was this to be the docket for prosecuting even a slightly complex mater.

And yet the docket was for a matter as complex as fraud, consists of:

The vast majority of the content is procedural and administrative documents associated with the arrest itself or the seizure that would be included in any docket where there has been an arrest.

A third relates to the immigration issue, consisting of the two false affidavits from the employees at the HAD (including their attachments which demonstrate the false nature of the affidavits), and Serg Stevens own false affidavit given four months after the arrest.

What remains was entirely the work of OD, including her own affidavit, and filled out with twenty pages of the lease agreement.

Other than the above the docket contains nothing else.

Nothing obtained directly by Serg Stevens, and nothing obtained by Serg Stevens as the result of any investigatory work.

Nothing in the six months after the supposed complaints (a full four months after Camps Bay confirmed they were civil matter and found no fault on our part and closed the docket).

Nothing in the six months after the activity of Paula Disberry (in itself motivated to assist her in our court battles).

With the only activity, coming in June and in December, when Mr de Swardt’s clients needed the assistance of SAPS to aid them in the civil arena.

And as importantly, nothinbg after the arrest itself. At which point the docket should have become full of documents resulting from investigation work that a) comes after all arrests, b) comes before and during a bail application, especially one the Investigating Officer seeks to oppose and c) comes before any trial.

And as Serg Stevens had told the court he needed more time for further investigation when trying to extend my unlawful detention then at the very least there should be paperwork related to those issues.

Crucially, there should have been documents and evidence related to the “serious” issues that Serg Stevens had used to overturn my bail and get me sent to Pollsmoor.

On those like matters, he used so successfully, as on everything else, there was not a single document or evidence any of what he said was true.

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Instead, it consisted mostly of procedural documents, a fraudulent immigration claim, and affidavits from interested parties seeking civil advantage. The lack of evidence highlights the misuse of state power to facilitate an illegal agenda.

57. The Real and Unalwful Use And Purpose Of The Docket, And Thereby The Arrest

The only logical conclusion is that what I had been saying since August 2022, before I even knew of the docket or the involvement of Belville Commercial or Serg Stevens, that the arrest and detention had nothing to do with investigating a crime, but rather in securing my detention and thereby my removal. Both from the properties and as an opponent in the civil courts.

If anyone demonstration of the true intent of the arrest and detention were needed it was in the Investigating Officer’s selective se of it. The Investigating Officer refused to provide the docket at or after arrest, during the period of remand, and in the months after obtaining bail when insisting on the bogus immigration charge. We only got the docket after obtaining permission to submit representations because Serg Stevens had no choice and was ordered to. [Until the point Serg Stevens was forced to give us the docket in June 2023, we had appeared monthly at Wynberg Magistrates court and on each occasion Serg Stevens had an excuse because we could not have the docket].

Whenever I spoke with the attorneys during the three months of remand in Pollsmoor and repeatedly asked what the charges were, they replied that they could not tell me because they did not know. Because Serg Stevens would not confirm.

In fact, no one knew what the charges were to be.

It was impossible to prepare either a defence or a bail application when we did not even know what the charges would be when that started.

In the end Serg Stevens left it until the day the bail application was due to start, some three months after the arrest, to confirm the charges.

While in Pollsmoor my only contact on the outside was Lauren Van Riet. She had been the practice manager at my property attorneys Louis Herbert. I had become good friends with Louis in 2022 but unfortunately, just prior to my arrest he had been diagnosed with brain cancer and had to suddenly close his practice, then never recovering from the brain surgery that followed, passing way in March 2023. I was unaware of the closure of the practice as it came after my arrest, as a result I had been unable to get hold of Louis, but Lauren had intercepted a message and replied. From that point onwards Lauren worked incredibly hard to help me and in particular in consulting with attorneys and family, to get me out on bail.

As the Investigating Officer refused to confirm what the charges would be or provide a docket, everyone made concerted efforts to try to obtain confirmation or a docket. Lauren called the courts, the police and anyone she could think of that may have a copy.
- In going through Louis emails Lauren sent after the closure of the practice, she found emails from the attorney for Kith Broad, sent in January, then I believe others followed in February and March.
- Where she found what she thought was a copy of the docket. It listed charges , other supposedly live dockets, the various malicious prosecutions, information about the arrest and other information that would be related to SAPS files. Lauren sent this to the attorneys, and we all began to work on the ‘docket.’
- However, what it turned out to be was the application to the High court submitted by Keith Broad the day after my arrest. That application was the significant reason for my arrest. Ei to be able to submit an application that contained fundamentally false statements and fabrications without an opponent to challenge them.

That the application by the client of Mr de Swardt contained the nearest thing to a docket on the matters and charges was a profound shock.

So, the Investigating Officer could not confirm the charges or any details of the state’s case to the defence, the prosecution or the court and could not provide any files, dockets or related information, regarding the state’s case to the defence, or the prosecution or the court, but the Investigating Officer could supply all of that to Keith Broad and Mr de Swardt. To aid in their attempts to deceive the civil courts to achieve their goals.

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In South Africa, where evidence can be gathered post-arrest, the bar for prosecution is low, yet this case failed even the most basic legal thresholds. The docket contained no investigative work from Sergeant Stevens, no post-arrest findings, and no substantiating evidence for the "serious" allegations used to revoke bail. Instead, it consisted mostly of procedural documents, a fraudulent immigration claim, and affidavits from interested parties seeking civil advantage. The lack of evidence highlights the misuse of state power to facilitate an illegal agenda.

58. Pie (Prevention from Illegal Eviction Act) / Rogue Landlords

“PIE legislation (The Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act) plays a crucial role in SA role in stopping rogue landlords, including by:

Prohibiting unlawful evictions: Landlords cannot evict tenants without following the legal process, which includes obtaining a court order.
Restoration proceedings: providing the means by which a tenant who has been illegally evicted can recover their home.
Preventing self-help measures: Landlords are not allowed to take matters into their own hands, such as changing locks or cutting off utilities to force tenants out.

These measures help protect tenants from unfair treatment, and landlords taking the law into their own hands.

The actions of Serg Stevens made that legislation irrelevant.

By executing an arrest and detention Serg Stevens managed to illegally evict the tenant and make it look as though it was no such thing and had no connection with the owners’ battles in the civil courts to achieve that same goal

It provided the landlord with protection from spoliation proceedings, criminal prosecution, and any responsibility for the illegal eviction.

And by keeping me detained it removed my ability tom launch proceedings or take any action or recover it

However, the landlords gave away their true intent in court when xxx

Had the arrest been unconnected, and the situation was one where a tenant had been arrested, there would be no reason for the owners to send an attorney to court saying the tenant would be blocked from re-entering their home. In itself illegal eviction

24.08.22.WCHC.Sokanyile_v_Broad.pdf (legalbrief.co.za)

Court’s message in Llandudno case: Do not take matters into your own hands | Ground Up

59. Statement Regarding “Members” Of The Team/ Serg Stevens Unofficial Team

Abuse of resources and personnel:

Nowhere on the arrest statement does it make any reference to the illegal, secret, and unofficial raid, arrest, and illegal eviction at 16 Leirmans road.
Nor does this statement or any of the statements mention the present Of Mr De Swardt.
Nor does this statement or any of the statements mention the present of Mr Denis Dalton.
Nor does this statement or any of the statements mention the questions about the safe or the search for the safe.
Nor does this statement or any of the statements mention that whatever reason was used to justify the special task force turned out to also be false.

60. The Significance of The Misconduct

I cannot think of a more heinous or hypocritical crime that a police officer can commit than using the criminal justice system to create and inflict injustice. To use the law itself to do extremely unlawful things.

Additionally, using the criminal justice system to obstruct and defeat justice.
Including to sabotage or enhance proceedings in the civil courts.
Furthermore, using the criminal justice system as a tool to void and evade some of the most significant pieces of legislation any country has, such as the rights of tenants in their homes.
By abusing the powers entrusted to him, Sergeant Stevens has managed to overrule the judiciary and parliament, making both irrelevant.
The police are supposed to respect and uphold the laws passed by parliament and scrutinized, enforced, and evolved by the judiciary and courts.
They are not supposed to act in a way that uses their authority to legitimize illegal conduct, making the courts, parliament, the executive, and the laws of a country irrelevant and of no value if you have the right connections within.

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Sergeant Stevens abused his authority to manipulate the justice system, obstruct legal proceedings, and legitimize unlawful actions. His misconduct overruled judicial and legislative safeguards, demonstrating how legal protections can be bypassed through corruption.

61. Corruption And Misconduct That Undermines the Accepted Hierarchy

As any police officer will know, the hierarchy of authority in South Africa is designed to ensure a system of checks and balances among these branches. The President leads the executive branch, the Parliament holds legislative power, and the Judiciary operates independently to uphold and interpret the law.

SAPS is by definition subservient to all of the branches of government, is responsible for enforcing and upholding government legislation, must comply with those laws, and cannot ignore or undermine any laws enacted by Parliament. Laws that they are the ones charged and legally bound to enforce.

If SAPS ignored or undermined these laws, it would violate their most fundamental duty and subordinate the executive, parliament, judiciary, and SA citizens who voted for them to the police.

What Serg Stevens had managed to do was void legislation enacted by parliament, adjudication by the judiciary, had become enshrined in law and precedent as one of the most fundamental principles of a civilised country. Ignoring it as if it did not exist and creating a position where there was no recourse to that same law.

A law that was passed for the explicit purpose of stopping landlords like Keith broad from doing what he did and doing what he had done multiple times before that.

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62. Post Pollsmoor Persecution

I had naively expected that having successfully delayed matters sufficiently to keep me in Pollsmoor for three months and having successfully managed to illegally evict me by executing an arrest, and thereby enabled the landlords to get away with their crimes, that Serg Stevens would not continue to prosecute and persecute.

His attempt to keep me in Pollsmoor when the bail application finally started on 13 March 2022, had a purpose. The hearing for the appeal Keith Broad had submitted the day before my arrest, had been the reason for my arrest, and despite Keith Broad’s best attempts to railroad it through while I was in Pollsmoor the judge had pushed it back because of my absence. The hearing was the day after my release. In reality, it was the same as being absent as I had been unable to instruct attorneys on the matter because of my detention, further I had no devices, documents, data to give to an attorney to help construct a defense, and no time to do so with the limited time the attorneys could spend when visiting Pollsmoor focused on the current criminal case and the impending bail application, in itself made all the more difficult because Serg Stevens would not confirm the charges.

But to be certain I could contribute nothing to a constructive attempt to fight Keith Broad Serg Stevens was instructed not to let me out until after the matter had been settled and in Keith Broad’s favour.

Much of the reason for the constant attempts to delay the start of the bail application was the judge’s reticence to hear the case in the absence of the tenant. So, each time it was ushed back in the hope I would be able to present a defense the onus fell to Serg Stevens to ensure I was not released. In the knowledge that in the end the judge would have no choice but to hear and conclude the matter.

However, even after the attempt to keep me in Pollsmoor by adding the bogus immigration charge had failed, and even after the attempt to keep me impose more by demanding an obscene bail sum of 100,000 Rand also failed it became clear that Serg Stevens was not yet finished with me.

He could have let the immigration charge full away once Keith Broad had achieved the outcome, he desired from the hearing but instead he continued through March April May and June pushing a prosecution and therefore a trial. Although there was no intention of having a full trial as that would have exposed the bogus nature of the immigration charge, but he was content to push the process and delay that process for as far as possible.

Thereby keeping me on bail keeping my movements restricted keeping me vulnerable to another attack and depleting me of what little money I had left paying on necessary legal fees.

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Sergeant Stevens disregarded fundamental legal principles by undermining legislation, judicial rulings, and democratic authority, effectively placing himself above the law. His actions enabled landlords like Keith Broad to bypass tenant protections, violating the very laws SAPS is sworn to uphold.

63. Belville, Serg Stevens And Serg Duna. Pre-October

As mentioned, it is highly unlikely and improbable that the corruption and criminology were restricted to Serg Duna, Serg Stevens, and Mr de Swardt. Far too much happened; far too many rules, laws, and procedures were broken; far too many resources were used and deployed; far too many personnel were enlisted and used.

For the corruption and criminality not to gone beyond and above Serg Stevens and Serg Duna would have meant it was necessary for Serg Stevens to have convinced his superiors of the credibility of the allegations, the veracity of the evidence and the intention to pursue the matter to full trial.

If his superior officers were aware of any factors that speak to the true nature of the campaign, then they had to have been complicit.

The docket that contained no genuine evidence obtained by SAPS.
The docket that contained no genuine evidence obtained by SAPS.
The false nature of the august charges.
The intentional contempt of court by Serg Duna in not going to the storage unit.
The attempts to obstruct and interfere with justice through the fabrication of charges and the inflation of the value of goods.
The Paula Disberry malicious prosecution.
The striking lack of activity on the docket in the year prior to the arrest.
The sudden request for a search warrant and the bogus claims it was either necessary or urgent.
The unusual and suspicious use of the STF.
The miscarriage of justice and fundamental breach of the successful attempt by Serg Stevens to get the prosecution to object to bail.
The failure of Serg Stevens to undertake any of the investigatory work necessary if his reasons for delay were genuine.
The complete absence of any attempts to conduct an investigation after the arrest.
The failure to harvest data.
The failure to contact guests post-arrest, whether to aid in an investigation or to ensure they did not become victims.
Or, for that matter, the fact that after the raid and search nothing was found, including whatever it was Serg Stevens had used to motivate the involvement of the STF in the first place.
Or the fact that every charge laid and every attempt at prosecution that had so far emanated from Belville Commercial Crime or HB had failed the moment it was scrutinised by anyone outside of Belville Commercial Crime and HB.

The list of issues that would give any senior officer cause for alarm is almost endless and includes the more than two hundred occasions when Serg Stevens, Serg Duna, or SAPS did something they should not have. For a commander to be ignorant of all of them is an impossibility.

And yet, even after the failure of the attempts, Serg Stevens continued and continued with the blessing and support of Belville Commercial Crime.

As evidenced even now with the commander’s defence of being indefensible, he is still refusing to return the devices he holds illegally, still claiming they intend to continue to investigate, still backing the stance taken by Serg Stevens and backing the campaign by Mr de Swardt.

Therefore, unless the commander has taken Serg Stevens at his word, is unfamiliar with the background, context, or history, has never seen the docket, is unaware of the failure of every attempt, and is unaware of the involvement of Mr de Swardt and the interference of the landlords, it is likely that the commander and others were involved and knew exactly what they were doing and why.

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The scale and persistence of the misconduct suggest that corruption extended beyond Sergeants Stevens and Duna, implicating senior officers who either enabled or ignored clear breaches of law and procedure. Given the repeated violations, lack of investigation, and ongoing support for Stevens’ actions, it is improbable that leadership was unaware—rather, their complicity appears deliberate.

64. “BENETTE”

This would include the role of the person known only as “Benette.” Those who were contacted by Benette have different understandings. Some said it was a police officer from Belville Commercial Crime, who appeared to be working closely with Paula Disberry, others have said that because of the way in which Belville Commercial Crime appeared to be working for Paula Disberry that they were a private investigator, collaborating with the police but not for the police.

The simple fact there are two different understandings show how blurred the lines were and how much deception was involved.

If Benette is a SAPS officer, what were they doing working for and on behalf of Paula Disberry

If Benette was not a SAPS officer, what were they doing representing to people including people they had identified as potential witness that they were a police officer and that they had the power of a police officer officers.

And what was Benette doing when telling people, they were working on a high-level fraud case, that the person faced ten to thirty years in prison, unless they signed witness statements that Paula Disberry had drafted for them

Or for that matter offering people immunity from prosecution, something only the senior state prosecutor has the power to do, and something only ever done when one person’s testimony can materially impact the outcome of a trial.

To this day, we do not know who Benette was. What we do know is they were very active between the beginning and middle of 2022 and by everyone’s account working for and with Paula Disberry.

65. Belville Targeting Of Chandre Abrahams And Others

The fact that Belville Commercial Crime were complicit and that high raking offices were involved in the campaign ,effectively working for and on behalf of Mr de Swardt, his clients, in particular Paula Disberry and Keith Broad, is evidenced in so much of what happened. One example is the conduct of Belville Commercial Crime after my first arrest during my time in Pollsmoor when they contacted a number of people trying to frighten them., threaten them, deceive them into testifying and signing prewritten statements.

The way they behaved hen and since can have no legal or legitimate justification or explanation.

It is interesting to note that Keith Broad, Paula Disberry, Peeter Van Wyk, Mr de Swardt and Raj Moonsamy have all claimed at various points to have significant power, influence, authority, and access when it comes to SAPS. Something I firmly believe to be true and also believe explains how they were able to get whole units to do their dirty work.

I suspect that at the outset, they were successful in deceiving these officers and units into believing I was some international crook. But regardless of whether they began the process with that conviction, what followed clearly showed the campaign had other motives and that I was being targeted.

FACT FILE

CORRUPT CONDUCT

The mystery surrounding "Benette" underscores the extent of deception and blurred lines between law enforcement and private interests. Whether a SAPS officer or an independent operative, their actions—pressuring witnesses, misrepresenting authority, and offering false immunity—point to a serious abuse of power and raise further concerns about the integrity of the entire investigation.

66. Complaints To Date

To date I have submitted complaints to the following ministers, bodies and organisations and am devoting myself to this project full time in the hope that everyone involved is exposed, investigated, and prosecuted and that they received sentences commensurate with them.

Premier Alan Wine.
The Press Council Ombudsman.
The Home Affairs Department.
IPID.
IID Western Cape.
PSIRA.
Minister of Home Affairs.
Minister of Police.
Director General of Home Affairs.
Western Cape Minister of Police Oversight and Community Safety.
Commander of Central Cape Town SAPS.
Premier Alan Wine.
Senior State prosecutor, National Prosecuting Authority.

67. Complaints & Actions To Come

I will as recommended,

File a complaint with the Western Cape Police Ombudsman.
Lay criminal charges where appropriate.
Initiate legal proceedings against those involved, including the state, minister of police, News24, Mr de Swardt and his clients.
Commence with a concerted effort to have journalists investigate and report on all the facts of the campaign so as to get the truth into the public domain.

FACT FILE

CORRUPT CONDUCT

Unlawful Collaboration: The role of an unidentified individual, “Benette,” raises serious concerns as they falsely presented themselves as law enforcement, pressured witnesses, and offered immunity—an authority reserved only for senior state prosecutors.

68. “Conspiracy To” And Collusion With The Consortium

By arresting me what Sergeant Stevens had managed to do in less than an hour undid a years’ worth of litigation, meant over a million rand in legal fees was entirely wasted, had meant the stress I had gone through fending off attack after attack by Keith Broad had been for nothing, resulted I my home and business being taken, my possessions stolen, my reputation destroyed, my finances decimated, as well as resulting in a third of that year being spent in Pollsmoor. In addition, ruining the holidays of hundreds of gests and causing them significant distress and loss.

But as mentioned, he was not working alone, and his actions were to achieve the shared goals of the consortium of landlords. By acting as a group, pooling resources, strategizing, planning, each using their own position and advantages to advance their campaign and achieve the shared goals, they were by definition co-conspirators.

Conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit an illegal act, along with an intent to achieve the agreement's goal. Usually but not always including an overt act.
Conspiracy generally carries a penalty on its own. In criminal law, all members of a conspiracy can be held liable for the actions taken by any member to further the conspiracy’s goals. Because of derivative liability this means that even if a conspirator did not directly commit the criminal act, they can still be held responsible if they were part of the agreement and intended to achieve its unlawful objective1.
Conspiracy statutes usually assign the same punishment for conspiracy as for the target offense.
And conspiracy applies to both civil and criminal offenses, e.g., conspiracy to commit murder, or conspiracy to commit fraud. The main elements are:
Agreement: Two or more people agree to commit a crime.
Intent: All conspirators have the specific intent to commit the crime.
Overt Act: At least one conspirator takes a step towards completing the crime.

Therefore, Serg Stevens is guilty of conspiracy to commit whole series of crimes, and likewise Mr de Swardt, Paula Disberry, Keith Broad, Raj Moonsamy et al are equally guilty of committing a whole series of crimes, including every crime that Serg Stevens committed.

Whatever the full list of crimes committed by the group or “consortium,” they are all guilty of conspiracy to commit all of those crimes.

If you add the crimes committed by Mr de Swardt, add the crimes committed by the individual landlords and then add the crimes committed by SAPS and the SAPS officers, the tally is in the hundreds. And as they fit perfectly the very definition of a conspiracy, they are all accountable.

FACT FILE

CORRUPT CONDUCT

Ongoing Investigations and Complaints: Complaints have been submitted to various governmental and oversight bodies, including IPID, the Minister of Police, the National Prosecuting Authority, and the Western Cape Minister of Police Oversight, among others, seeking exposure and prosecution of all involved parties.

69. South African Taxpayer

The operation of Serg Stevens on 14 December was also a violation of the High Court interdict, which prohibited Keith Broad, Mr de Swardt, and any individual who was known to them or working with or for them from entering or near 116 Leirmans Road.

The police are effectively nullifying High Court interdicts, judgements, rulings, and orders by committing unlawful acts and disguising them as lawful ones by "disguising" that breach through an arrest.

This is the most egregious hypocrisy conceivable and represents multiple layers of deceit, crimes, and breaches of codes of conduct.

70. Breach Of Interdict and High Court Orders

This is the most egregious hypocrisy conceivable and represents multiple layers of deceit, crimes, and breaches of codes of conduct.

FACT FILE

CORRUPT CONDUCT

Judicial Undermining: By arresting the complainant, Stevens voided litigation efforts, wasted over a million rand in legal fees, led to the loss of home and business, and caused reputational and financial ruin, while also distressing hundreds of guests.

71. Issues Of Wider Significance

The campaign, corruption, and criminality raise significant and profound issues.

These encompass, but are not restricted to:

The protection of the perpetrator from any consequences by the use of arrest to execute and disguise illegal evictions.

The utilisation of the same tactic in numerous other contexts, where an individual can acquire an advantage by eliminating their opponent from circulation without appearing to be involved.

The utilisation of arrest and detention as a strategy to facilitate private campaigns and vendettas.

Hijacking the state for personal gain.

Similarly, the weaponization of the state to support that campaign.

The fact that the South African taxpayer provides nearly all of the funding for such a campaign is of the utmost importance.

The fabrication of victims by private individuals and SAPS in the absence of actual victims, either to facilitate a malicious prosecution or to address a lack of evidence in a docket or investigation.

The strategic use of remand and incarceration to remove an opponent from circulation.

The ease with which SAPS can extend remand without any genuine justification.

The inability to report, investigate or prosecute for issues such as perjury or the obstructing a frustration of justice.

The huge disparity between the ability of the wealthy and the poor to achieve a just outcome or to have injustices investigated.

The use of the criminal justice system to enhance and or supplant litigation on the civil courts.

The ease with which independent arms of the state such as the NPA, SAPS, the courts, can be manipulated and influenced into aiding such a campaign.

The ease with which private individuals can obstruct justice.

And importantly the complete lack of routes to have that investigated or prosecuted.

The complete failure of those responsible for policing the police to do so.

As well as the failures of everyone responsible for or with the authority to investigate corruption and criminality, including an astonishing level of apathy and disinterest.

Developing a system that incentivises criminal behaviour, particularly extreme criminality.

FACT FILE

THE CONSORTIUM

The intentional use of the criminal justice system to perpetrate injustice, The utilisation of the criminal justice system to commit, conceal, and protect against investigation or prosecution, the utilisation of the legal system to facilitate illegal activity, and the utilisation of the powers that are intended to combat crime to carry out criminal activities.

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CORRUPTION & CRIMINALITY

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Discover the untold stories behind the false headlines of the Media24 articles. Uncover the truth behind the fabricated content of those articles. Understand the motivation that powered the consortium's actions.

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"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."

Blaise Pascal

SAPS UNLAWFUL CONDUCT: PART 2: CRIMINAL CONDUCT, FABRICATED CHARGES & THE ENFORCEMENT ARM OF A DEFAMATORY CAMPAIGN

UNLAWFUL CONDUCT OF SERGEANT STEVENS & BELLVILLE COMMERCIAL CRIMES UNIT

35. The Dossier That Was Created Out Of Their Plan To Create Victims

36. The Real Intent And Strategy Of Serg Stevens

37. Proof Of The Plan By Serg Stevens And Mr De Swardt To Create Victims

38. The Goal Was To Imprison Not To Go To Trial

39. December 19 – The First Appearance:

40. Remand Period: Before The Start of The Bail Application. The Unlawful Detention, And the Crimes Committed To Extend It

41. Imbalance of Power.

42. The Significance And Purpose Of The Crimes Serg Stevens Committed.

43. Bail Application Appearances, Serg Stevens Attempts To Extend Detention

44. Serg Stevens Continued Lies To The Court

45. Obstruction And Perjury

46. More Intentional Failures To Follow Due Process

47. Contempt of Court

The Delayed Start of the Bail Hearing and the Three Months of Pollsmoor Prison That Resulted:

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48. Another Malicious Prosecution

49. Continued Attempts to Unlawfully Detain And Extend An Unlawful Detention

50. Both Magistrate Recommend an Investigation

51. ​The Impact of Serg Stevens’s Conduct On Me

52. The Impact of Serg Stevens’s Conduct on Others – The Real Victims

53. Pollsmoor Prison

54. Compounding The Losses and Damage

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Seizure and Data, Failure to Return Equipment After 20 Months.

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If the Fraud Allegation Were Genuine Why Have SAPS not Already Downloaded Data.

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55. Direct & Precise Correlation Between Police Activity & Cessation Of Activity With The Land​lords Campaign & Goals

56. Fraud Charges And The Docket

57. The Real and Unalwful Use And Purpose Of The Docket, And Thereby The Arrest

58. Pie (Prevention from Illegal Eviction Act) / Rogue Landlords

59. Statement Regarding “Members” Of The Team/ Serg Stevens Unofficial Team

60. The Significance of The Misconduct

61. Corruption And Misconduct That Undermines the Accepted Hierarchy

62. Post Pollsmoor Persecution

63. Belville, Serg Stevens And Serg Duna. Pre-October

64. “BENETTE”

65. Belville Targeting Of Chandre Abrahams And Others

66. Complaints To Date

67. Complaints & Actions To Come

68. “Conspiracy To” And Collusion With The Consortium

69. South African Taxpayer

70. Breach Of Interdict and High Court Orders

71. Issues Of Wider Significance

CORRUPTION & CRIMINALITY

51. The Impact of Serg Stevens’s Conduct On Me

55. Direct & Precise Correlation Between Police Activity & Cessation Of Activity With The Landlords Campaign & Goals