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We dug on Bird Island and Marc Minne a few months ago. This is an interesting article:

https://city-press.news24.com/News/apartheids-paedophiles-20180804

General Magnus Malan, who in the 1980s was the most powerful man in South Africa after apartheid state president PW Botha, was a paedophile who took part in sex orgies with young boys during “fishing excursions” on Bird Island near Port Elizabeth.

This stunning allegation against the former minister of defence is made in the book, The Lost Boys of Bird Island, which hits the shelves today.

The book was written by former narcotics branch policeman Mark Minnie and investigative journalist Chris Steyn.

The writers say another prominent minister, who was at that time viewed as “a possible presidential candidate” was also part of the Malan paedophile ring.

Unlike Malan – who died aged 81 of a heart attack in 2001 – this minister is still alive.

His name is being withheld in the book on legal advice.

Magnus Malan, the apartheid minister of defence, preyed on young boys who called him a ‘cruel uncle’ and nicknamed him ‘Ears’.

For more than 30 years and completely independently of each other, Minnie from Port Elizabeth and Steyn from Cape Town had been investigating allegations of paedophiles in the upper echelons of the National Party.

Powerful players in their respective organisations ensured that their efforts came to naught.

But now, three decades later, the two are telling their stories in The Lost Boys of Bird Island.

The common denominator that brought the paedophile ring to light was two strange and sensational “suicides” early in 1987.

The bodies of Dave Allen (37), a well-known and wealthy unmarried Port Elizabeth businessman and police reservist, and John Wiley (60), a National Party minister, were found within weeks of each other with bullet wounds to the head.

Wiley, a good friend of Malan, was married and lived in Cape Town. Wiley and Allen had been close friends since 1977.

John Wiley and Magnus Malan with PW Botha

Among the writers’ shocking revelations are that:

• The boys, who were mostly coloured and in their early teens, were – with Malan, Wiley and Allen – flown to Bird Island in helicopters belonging to the then SA Defence Force (SADF). Once there, they would be plied with braaied meat and alcohol, after which they were sexually abused by the men;

• On one such occasion, a pistol was allegedly inserted into the anus of one of the boys. A shot was fired – their sources say by Malan – and the critically injured boy was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Port Elizabeth;

• Men in suits stood guard while the coloured child was secretly treated in the white side of the government hospital. His family and the hospital matron were paid for their silence. ;

• Malan was described as an especially “cruel uncle” by the boys, who called him “Ears” because of his prominent ears;

• Apart from Bird Island, the paedophile ring of senior National Party officials also took boys to Allen’s luxurious house in Schoenmakerskop near Port Elizabeth and to a beach house in Witelsbos in the Tsitsikamma forest, 82km west of Jefferys Bay; and

• According to Steyn’s sources, which included two army agents and a retired policeman, Malan was the “most likely contractor” of the hitmen who murdered Wiley and Allen. One of the sources claimed that the third minister who was “seen as a possible presidential candidate” should not be overlooked for his role in the deaths.

Minnie carefully compiled a file – including statements and tape recordings – to take Malan to court.

But this file was removed from his office one day without his knowledge by a “Brigadier Schnetler” and “two highly placed officers from head office in Pretoria”.

Minnie did not get it back and his investigation was scuppered.

But even before the file was taken, the chief state prosecutor in Port Elizabeth warned Minnie in “fat red letters” written on the docket: “Any investigation into this matter should be discontinued immediately.” Signed: “John Scott.”

Minnie, then a warrant officer, continued his investigation in secret. He later resigned and started working undercover as a paid police informant. Eventually, he left the police.

The former policeman reveals a deep personal secret in the book – that he was raped at the age of 12 by 16-year-old twin brothers.

This was, he says, what drove him to write the book about the paedophile ministers, despite interference from on high, threats and an attempt on his life.

Minnie identified Allen as the kingpin of the paedophile ring, thanks to information he received from a young white boy who was also hospitalised with injuries to his lower body.

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