Hey??

Some of you may have noticed that the duplication of the site to stapletonian.chromatique.com has gone quite smoothly. You see, that’s the problem with modern technology: when things work as planned – well, then there is little to write home about. The electricity has done everything for you; there is very little to have a party about. However, if things do not go according to the carefully made plans – then you have a total bum time.

Just imagine, everyday you get into your car, it speaks to you, the air-conditioner goes woosh, the little amber, yellow and green lights twinkle, the car starts without a grump, and the electric gate opens without a hitch. Except for perhaps the first orgasmic time, you don’t phone your partner and arrange for a party because this has all happened – no, it’s just not a big deal.

However, one day you move your key over the door, and … nothing happens. A relatively civil expression is “now you are totally stuffed” – none of the other goodies manifest in your reality because one the errant electron did a “patrick” on you. Let’s coin a new word and call an incident like this a stapletonian phenomenon: all is well while the juice flows, but when there is a kink in the hose, we begin to dribble – in fact it all turns into shit.

But that is not the purpose of this posting. Firstly, I wanted to test drive the facility to post to two blogs at the same time from my lap-top. If it works - you will have noticed. If not, we’ll just put it down to the stapletonian phenomenon.

Secondly, and this is rather interesting. I think, yesterday I inadvertently opened a portal to another dimension. As an anonymous comment was posted by “faisombud”. I moderated it and published, but here it is for you to look at again:

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Old Fish becomes smelly...":

The Office of the Ombud for To Edwafin investors contact this office for results: Financial Services Providers (‘FAIS Ombud’) was established by the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act, 37 of 2002 (‘FAIS Act’). The FAIS Ombud’s role is to resolve disputes between financial services providers and their clients in a procedurally fair, informal, economical and expeditious manner. The FAIS Ombud‘s jurisdiction is limited to violations which occurred on or after 30 September 2004 and to claims not exceeding R800 000.00.

Telephone: +27 12 470 9080

Facsimile: +27 12 348 3447

E-mail Address: info@faisombud.co.za

Website: www.faisombud.co.za

I must admit, the first sentence, seems totally off-planet to me, but the rest, beyond the colon seems like a scripted advertisement. I do admit that I appreciate the feedback, and the fact that I never knew about the FAIS Ombud.

For clarity sake, it is necessary to enlighten said FAIS Ombud as follows:

Our dispute with the financial body called Edwafin, and it’s main directors, Patrick Stapleton, R & S Hutchinson, Carole Gardiner (knew but didn’t know), the prayer-pair (can’t remember their names right now), and a few more has been going on since 2009 – seven years after your law (FAIS Act). At that time we pleaded for your assistance, bowed before your feet, sprinkled you with flower petals, and made sure that our farts were down-wind from you. What was your reaction? You took away Edwabond’s certificate-thingy and closed the door on us. Yet this happened only AFTER various folks among us knocked repeatedly on your door. Edwafin is now bankrupt – its last snibble of assets being niggled over by them legal-folk; a retired judge has made a pronouncement – and now is happily continuing his retirement; the Scorpions have gone in hiding; every six months we get a bit of a note from them legal-folks telling us that nothing is happening because there is no money (originality, please, something we don’t know yet!) Now you come with a prosaic: “The FAIS Ombud’s role is to resolve disputes between financial services providers and their clients in a procedurally fair, informal, economical and expeditious manner.” The rest of your script is merely an example of well-ordered but totally ineffectual fairy-pee.

Tee-hee. Back to my own universe I go.

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Old Fish becomes smelly...

Hi there all good citizens of my Edwafin Investment blog. It has been some time, I admit but, alas, the wheels of justice and the legalizers are very flat - great effort and much time is needed to get them rolling. I find these lawyers who are so furiously and slowly busy trying to get at the insurance money such curious creatures. It's as if one inadvertently strolled into a Hobbit tale. This (the rolling wheels thing) reminds me of a short memory from my youth.

My best school mate, Kallie's (so called because his turkey-pets would come running to him when he called them by shouting "koolie-koolie-koolie", - perhaps it was the promise of food, though) father was a real roughneck and owned a WW II Harley Davidson with side car - still in war colours. Of course nobody was allowed to touch his proud possession, especially the young ones.

Being young we were very much into motorcycles (we favoured the Yamaha), and since the Harley did not require a key - Hey Patrick you may find this interesting! during WW II, things didn't need to be locked down so much, as thievery wasn't so popular yet! - we would simply roll the beast from under its port, and drive around the suburb of Westdene, unlicensed and without a care in the world.

This happened a few times, until one evening after we had been joyriding, Kallie's father took out his the strap when he arrived home from work, and Kallie had to suffer some pain. We couldn't figure out how his dad had discovered our stapletonianism, and thus carried on with our, what we thought, deception. 

After suffering a few times from his father's fury, Kallie finally discovered what was happening: Pa would place a small, very small, pebble on the tracks of one of the machine's wheels. Every evening, he would walk over to his Harley and inspect the wheels, and thus could see if it had been moved or not.

Thereafter, Kallie never suffered a beating anymore because of the Harley - we always inspected the three wheels and replaced the little pebbles on our return from our travels. He did get one beating one day, though, while helping his father on a job. Dad, being a plumber, was working in the rafters of a house in progress, and shouted down to Kallie to throw him a spanner. In the process, his dentures came loose and tumbled from his mouth to the floor, landing right in front of Kallie's feet, Kallie had (and still does) a rather infectious giggle, which could also be infuriating if something unhappy happened to one. This time it infuriated dad ....

Two things today:

• It seems that the blog is worrying some folk, and this week we went fishing - so to speak. Having been born under the sign of Pisces, I tend to be familiar with many of the baits that anglers tend to use. So this is what I plan on doing and have begun working on already. DUPLICATION is really the meaning behind the new-world term of making back-ups. The scientists would call it redundancy.

• I have started a new blog called the Stapletonian and it can be found at stapletonian.chromatique.com (or else chromatique.com/stapletonian - both work equally well.) This new blog will not contain any other news but will essentially be a duplicate of this existing Blogger - blog (a Google product). Since it is a Wordpress product, I may be able to organize the material a bit better by using categories. It is in progress, so pleas be patient as I'm still learning. 

• The redundancy measure above will be further extended, to perhaps one or two additional sites, while I shall also appoint one or more persons as administrators of some sites, in case I can't manage it for some reason.

• Another, but longer, project is to collect all the material in this blog and collate it in a proper booklet in PDF format so that you can all have your own private copy of the results of my fleeting fingers. This will be freely available and there will be no copyright on it. Now, isn't that refreshing for a change.

•  I can't believe it myself, but for some reason the Hutchinsons do not appear on my side panel. You will note that I have fixed this shortcoming, and that the loving couple now appear below the big man himself. Of course, I had to blow-up the big man's picture a little to make it at least appear that he is the boss-man. It was not easy though, making a big man out of a weeny one is not menial in the least.

So I lied, that was more than two things - perhaps it's a counting problem, but then in the world of Stapletonia, you do as the Stapletonians do.

Memories

To many investors, Patrick Stapleton, and buddies of the erstwhile Edwafin is really no more than a sad memory. Yes, of course, the lawyers are still ravenously pursuing the matter to extract the last drop of blood from the dried-out carcass.
So, I wasn't going to do too much blogging about it anymore; let's face it our good old South African legal system  has again proven that we are in darkest Africa. And all the time, effort put in by Officer (I forgot which one it was - lieutenant, inspector, sergeant general? ) Sherrif and mates - all the promises; the retired judge's stern opinion of having them arrested immediately. Special trips for the interviews; long reams of paper and reports. And so on, and so on, and so on...
Every now and then there is still old anonymous who draws the attention to a matter. This fascinates me though:
There is still an Edwafin webpage, with some lonely guy prattling away about his innocence, threatening the investors and ex-staffers with hell and damnation. For one moment I thought that was in a lunatic asylum but when I looked outside I saw the stars and realized that it must be the approaching 2012 apocalypse that is causing this man so much anguish and emotional pain.
Really, old mate, if you want to make good, apologize to the people who you bankrupted - if you can give the old retiree or widow that placed so much trust in your ability to look after their money, some of the cash you want to spend on other vultures, then it is money well spent. Now you want to run to the flubble-cheek kissers again. Tut-tut-tut. None of them are going to succeed in making you look innocent - first the people's money, then your threats; where is it all going to end?
Let's be honest now, you have proven that you are an absolute dismal businessman, deplorable human being, you have shown how sparingly you apply the truth, now you are in the process of showing us all the worst you can be - totally devoid of anything, not even a bit of Dark Matter.

Of course if your incessant prattle on the website of  a bankrupt company gives you tickles - carry on...

La-La Land and the sleeping doltations

Well, well. You didn't think I would be back then, did you? I'm still around but the Edwafin thing became a real dull subject too spent too much time on. But then, the abuse, oh - the abuse that came from the anonymouses was at time hilarious. It seems that the snippets of information I provided now and then was really addictive and that the withdrawl symptoms was really too much to bear for some of you.

A major withdrawler was old Patrick Stapleton himself. It became so bad that he started a kind of blog-thingy for himself. A few weeks ago when I discovered his new/old site www.edwafin.co.za I though it was a historical remnant - a  fluke of hyperspace, hanging around like a ghost not wanting to give up - well - the ghost. You see at the time I could have sworn that the articles were written in present tense - as if Edwafin was an ongoing, flourishing enterprise.

This morning an anonymous submitted the link to the site again and, by Jove,  the tense has been changed to reflect the past. Here it is again: www.edwafin.co.za.

In typical patricksonian prattle, our friend makes the profound statement that most of the commentators on this blog (I presume), are unknown to them - Patrick and friends one presumes. Now isn't that a coincidence, as almost all the commentators to this blog have been anonymous.

Then he goes on and on and on about how stable Edwafin was, on how steady the financial footing was before we all discovered that the cash box had been emptied. Anyway, one need not repeat the whole sickness here as everyone so inclined to go and read Patrick's version on the site give above.

Then ...

Of course for the sake of balance and fairness we must also read about the other side of the story. And that is acutely summarized in an article in IOL of 24 June 2010. Go and read it here, but please let me have the pleasure of quoting the judges opinion following the judicial inquiry. Here we go:

The judge concluded:

That the company was running a Ponzi scheme, "in itself a fraudulent transaction rendering every director who was a party to it liable for the losses suffered".

That certain non-disclosures by Stapleton rendered him liable to be prosecuted criminally.

That Stapleton had committed tax fraud in that Edwafin regularly paid into a close corporation in his name more than R100 000 that was not reflected in the company's balance sheet.

That Hutchinson and former director Myrtle Winchester were liable to repay directors' fees unlawfully paid to a trust and close corporation.

Attempts to "right size" Edwafin's balance sheet to make it more attractive to investors were fraudulent.

That the directors had committed a "most serious fraud" by making false statements in the prospectuses, among them that one of its subsidiaries, Rainbow Paints, was in "good health" when it was "hopelessly insolvent".

That Edwafin's bankers had a "prima facie" case to meet and could be liable for the entire R230m loss.

That Edwafin's auditors and attorneys, by lending their names to the prospectuses, could also be liable for investors' losses.

Patrick, man it has been such a long time since you actually contributed to these pages. This is an open invitation, if you have anything to defend, to state your case to those that you owe so much. Please, present your case here instead of making wild statements of high-powered lawyers and civil actions against poor old anonymous. Let us be honest, Edwafin has been liquidated under circumstances that the judge found most irregular - do you still have a case to present under the logo of Edwafin, while it no longer has life?

Huff - Puff. My woolies over thine eyes

PS. Patrick you spelled my name wrong in your search keywords

A special request

After some silence I have a quick one for those who are still following the Edwafin saga. I was asked to publish the following (5th) circular from the liquidators on this blog. It is important that as many investors as possible attend the meeting.


Dear Potential creditors

EDWAFIN INVESTMENT HOLDINGS LTD (In Liquidation)

Masters reference : N74/09

We confirm that no creditors have proved claims at this stage, purely because there is a danger of a contribution being paid by Creditors proving claims.

This letter is addressed to all potential creditors inviting them to an urgent confidential informal meeting to take place at Hillcrest Primary School (situate at 17 Emoyeni Drive, Hillcrest, ph : 031 – 7653252) on Wednesday the 23^rd of June 2010 at 10h00.  All potential creditors are urged to attend the meeting, to consider, inter alia, the following :

1.             a confidential report to be tabled at the meeting by the joint liquidators;

2.             the continuation of the Section 417 / 418 enquiry, the costs and effect thereof;

3.             the possible litigation against third parties;

4.             the funding of pursuing the claims as contained in the confidential report.

The meeting is an informal creditors meeting because no creditors have proved claims thus far.

This is the last opportunity that creditors will have to consider pursing any recovery and you are requested to attend the meeting to provide the Joint liquidators with your input and directions.

			Berrangé Incorporated Attorneys, Conveyancers & Notaries

Before I speak about the law, let me quickly enlighten you about an aspect of suburban life that has a mixed value of bemusement and amusement for me.
Most of you will have heard about Schroedinger's cat. In short, this imaginary feline sits in a box being both alive and dead at the same time - in a state quantum indetermination - waiting for someone to open the box and observe it to be either definitely dead or definitely alive. Likewise we have no idea whether it is meowing, purring, licking its paws, or essentially in a state of smelly rot. The basic idea is, that it depends on the laws of quantum physics whether either of the mentioned states is found when the box is opened. Until this happens the kitten is in a combined state of purring, meowing and smelly rottenness.

In South Africa, however, we don't even need to place kitty in a box to observe the unknown state of a situation: you only need to approach one of those teeny roundabouts that one finds in the suburbs. In fact these phenomena of our road make available not two, but three possible states of indetermination - states that you won't know before you actually arrive at the little circle and observe another car that arrives there at the same time. The first is a simple event, is that car coming from the left that cuts right in front of you without taking the trouble of following the rules of the land by going around the teeny circle. If it is a 4x4 they may even drive right across the middle circular hump. Schroedinger made no allowance for this kind of phenomena, which we shall simply call the cranium voidal state.

The other options are somewhat more complex and depends on what you expect of the other car from the left, what he/she expects from you, what you think he/she expects and what he/she expects you will expect. Yes ... I know ... the country's road-law states that the guy entering from the right has the right of way, but as we know, in our little heap of soil, everybody regards him/herself to have the right of way, and laws are there for the ruling party to formulate at moments of seemingly unending idleness [at times they may also keep themselves occupied by copiously contributing to the state of over-population of the planet, and that this is a good thing to do is shown by the important figures who so joyfully participate in this activity in between the formulation (yes, I know you read fornication) of laws.] So if you are a descent law abiding driver, there is the possibility that you will drive within the legal guidelines, if the other guy feels similarly about matters. If not, ... well, then there is always Schroedinger's cat - is it meowing or exuding pongs of death.

Talking about cats, some of you may have noticed that we have rat-sniffers amongst us. True, I have been aware of the rats in our small community, but really, now we have sniffers as well!! Nevertheless, I wanted to write to my blog for some time now, and the sniffer merely inspired me to report back to you about my exciting Thursday, last week.

You see, I saw the sheriff. Yep, shook his hand and chatted with him another NPA personage - a superintendent nogal.

For those of you who are under the impression that not much is happening - that is only the way it seems to be. Things are really happening, only it is not happening very fast.

Mr Sherriff of the NPA is currently visiting Gauteng and we had an appointment last week in Randburg, where I dutifully went and gave my declaration under oath, as well as a good number of copies of my correspondence with Lord Patrick.

I met Mr Sherriff and a Superintendent at the Randburg Inn which, coincidently, has the smallest little swimming pool in the Southern Hemisphere - it is absolutely tiny and too cute for words - So that's all I'll say about it.

IMPORTANT
In short the message is that the investigations are ongoing and will probably continue until sometime in September. There are about 1400 investors to interview and that takes time to do properly as the NPA gents wanted to be as well prepared as can be. The NPA is also working closely with the liquidators and are also awaiting the report by the retired judge who chaired the recent private investigation [I'm still not very happy about the covertness of it all, but then who am I to judge - no pun here]. My impression is that the main Edwafin culprits are not going to get away scot-free, especially since some of their cohorts will also be aiding the state as witnesses.

Can we now begin to talk tentatively about Edwafin's fat cats? Come the end of the year, will we see them in a box, or will they continue their purring and spinning from behind the high-class 4 x 4's, visiting the local Fruit & Veg? Let's not forget that the DMA is still sprouting financial wisdom to all that have been born with a sucker gene. But then, my genes were also suckered by the financial enticement of hopefully-soon-to-be-behind-bars P & B.

Take care when you approach the round-about.

And the scum foams wherever you rest your eyes

Last week we had a brief look at the liquidators' self-righteous and exclusive possession of the Edwafin saga. We have to ever so slightly honest about the matter:  the little bit of money that might still have been left in the Edwafin cash-box is being plundered by them, and we are being excluded from the process. What I find most wondrous of this kind of situation is that they proudly announce the appointment of a retired judge, and then equally matter-of-factually announce that the enquiry would be private and secret. Without explanations, rhyme or reason.

But for us, living here in the southern part of the African continent, such unexplained secrecy should come as no surprise. We have become so used to this style of activity when people have thingies in their little cupboard to hide, that we hardly blink twice about it.

Now, you folks should know by now that I have a spirit-filled respect for the human reality, but they don't fill me with awe. So putting a retired judge at the head of an enquiry does not fill me necessarily with confidence. Let us assume that he was born normally - like all of us - and that the ensuing rest of his life was perhaps a model of respectability, honesty and sincerity. The question that now weighs heavily on my youngish soul is "why would such an honourable, retired person be part of such a deplorably secret situation?" I suspect that the folks in charge of things such the consequences of human shortcomings, tend to lose touch with the reality - the victims of the human-on-human abuse. So what do  you do, when you can't handle the reality? - you just leave them out. Of course, in view of the lack imposed information by those entrusted with our affairs, they have no reason to complain when we, the victims, drawing our own conclusions - as they surely, and self-righteously will.

It thus that I received an email from an admirer that brought back memories. Remember those early days, when there still was uncertainty about the liquidation of Edwafin? During those historical days, I had occasion to communicate with the offices of attorney, A Geyser, orf rather with one lady in his office.

Mr Geysers came back to life in the email containing the following link: THE CRIMINAL CONVICTION OF ATTORNEY ANDRIES GEYSER.htm. Go fetch, Sibi, go fetch!

And I keep trying to convince people that the universe is not a clown.

Can you smell the sea air through the bars already?

This is short - life beckons, but because some might not have received it yet, here is the third circular from the liquidators.

Salient points:

The inquiry will take place early in December. Of course, you have guessed it, the most important players in the game- us, the investors - may not be present. That's for what its worth - its about your money but you may not know what is being said. Viva la Africa Sud

Then, an interesting statement in the letter states that their preliminary investigation has shown that Edwafin was never an "income generating activity." We, the investors already know what that meant, but in short the masters of the company never really allowed our investments to work towards generating an income, and therefore merely used our money up.

I was tempted to provide you with a few famous words, a'la Patrick and Don, but why bother, we have heard it all before.

Hey, Patrick, Don, and cronies, I have visions of steel bars overlooking the Durban sea, four hands, each clutching one bar - the only freedom: smelling the fresh wafts of the sea breeze, and the screeching of sea birds in the distance.

Here we go: http://www.scribd.com/doc/23195768

I'm sorry that there is only a link, but it seems that Scribd has changed the system, and apparently it is no longer possible to show the documents directly on the blog. Just click on the above link, and you will be able to read it.

Hoola, hoola

To make new friends is to encounter part of your alter-ego

Last week we received a cryptic anonymous about Upward Spirals' Gary van den Heever, with an challenge to find this "person" that has meaning for us as Edwafiners, and whom can be found amongst the friends of Gary.

Hey, it took me a while, but there amongst the multitude of Gary's Facebook friends I found Don Hutchinson in all his glory.I must say he is a magnificent specimen, a well-fed operator, and in my imagination I could see the meat-juices and oiliness of the many lunches and dinners, enjoyed out our investments dribbling from his jowls. The alternative of The Pair, Patrick, is similarly a gleaming specimen of good, well-fed health, but alas he has not made it to Gary's friendship page yet.

Before I give you the wrong impression, I do not wish to throw any aspersions on Gary. He seems like a nice above-board gentlemen, who is seemingly very popular and a man of many achievements. That their  pward Spiral web site won't win any prizes, is neither here nor there but perhaps as their business growths, as I suspect it will, that may improve as well. What Gary perhaps does not know, is that he has a lurker amongst his many friends. There in all his patheticism, Don beams amongst the many other beautiful people on Gary's web site. Perhaps it is time that Gary has a look at our blog so that he can discover who has so surreptitiously infiltrated his circle of friends.

So I asked Gary to be my friend on Facebook and he accepted! Now I think that is gregarious and I am very happy. You see, it appear that Gary has a certain fondness for the music I share with him, as well as fast cars. Well my fast car is driven by wify, but she is fast, I tell you, make no mistake.

Then I thought, since he is on Facebook as well, let me ask Don if I can be a friend of his as well. Let's face it, back in the days, I also invited Patrick to have a cup of coffee with me - mainly to discuss what we would do in our next life. But Don has been mum until now. You see, Don does not like people - yes, that's true, he likes their money, and the oily dribble down along his cheeks and down his chin (oops! a number of chins I should say), but he definitely does not like the people.

I have learnt to look at life anew every day, and appreciate something beautiful in life. Today's beauty: the fact that two boys, Patrick Stapleton and Don Hutchinson, who made such a devastating fiasco of managing R128,000,000 of other peoples money, have now set themselves up to give advice to others on how to manage their money in the newly but old named DMC. And at the other end of the universe an Angle looses a white, bright feather, while holding his tummy with mirth.

It's a good thing we are devoid of feathers, otherwise Don and Patrick would find ways to pluck them as well - if an Angle at the edge of the universe is not safe, we would have been plucked naked by now - or are we?

All the beautiful Edwafiners

Of course, when the first leaves began stirring in the under-brush, a good many followed suit. After the new web  page of Stapleton and Hutchinson was inaugurated two days ago, many old (girl)friends looked up my email address and contributed more information.

First of all, let me report back on my "welcome to our reality" message I sent to The Pair. Nothing, totally silent and devoid of living-substance. Very much like our Edwafin investments - totally, absolutely, and resolutely nothing. Now, can you imagine that.? I would have at least thought a "thank you for your warm welcome, and kind thoughts" would have been in order, but no - absolute solid heavy silence. "Oh well", I thought, "perhaps their site is yet an empty shell". But not so, as one in our midst, actually phoned the office phone of the sparkling new DMC, and spoke to Sandy, the other half of Don. So they are in office.

Having mentioned the poorly designed website [really Patrick, your financial acumen is deplorable, but must you let your poor taste reflect on the Internet - shame on you now.], I wondered who the service provider would be, that would provide such a service to brittle fingers. And ... yet another girlie came to the rescue and supplied the following:

---------------------------------------------

domain                 : dynamicmc.co.za

registration date      : 2009-06-22

expiry date            : 2010-06-01

registrant             : Upward Spiral

registrantpostaladdress: Unit 1, 18 Edendale Rd. Eastleigh. Edenvale.

registrantstreetaddress: Unit 1, 18 Edendale Rd. Eastleigh. Edenvale.

billingaccount         : Upward Spiral

invoiceaddress         : Unit 1, 18 Edendale Rd. Eastleigh. Edenvale.

registrantphone        : +27 11 609 7765 2k. Registrant Fax No. : +27 11

registrantphone        : +27 11 609 7765 2k. Registrant Fax No. : +27 11

registrantfax          : 

admin                  : van den Heever, Gary

admintitle             : Admin

admincompany           : Upward Spiral

adminpostaladdr        : Unit 1, 18 Edendale Rd. Eastleigh. Edenvale.

adminphone             : +27 11 609 7765

adminfax               : +27 11 609 7785

tec                    : Stevens, Rowan

tectitle               : Tech

teccompany             : Upward Spiral

tecpostaladdr          : 292 Thrush Avenue Boskriun 2188

tecphone               : +27 11 792 3632

tecfax                 : +27 11 609 7785

primnsfqdn             : ns1.your-server.de

secns1fqdn             : ns.second-ns.com

secns2fqdn             : ns3.second-ns.de

secns2ip               : 

secns2ipv6             : 

secns4fqdn             : 

WIDTH=480 ALIGN=CENTER BGCOLOR=#B6D5E4>

 Yoopy-whoopy I thought, and immediately visited the Upward Spiral web site. Oh, deary, me. What a shambles it would be, in my best Shakespearian. The Upward Spiral has not yet taken off, and it is still firmly rooted to the earthy plane. They also have a most peculiar web site address http://www.us1007.co.za/ - go figure! There are just no names that can be connected to the management of the site. Oh yes, plenty of promises and wonderful visions of the future, but all hidden behind a wall of anonymity.They are actually erecting (sies! for those improper thoughts) their own towers. Naturally The Pair (Patrick and Don) have attached themselves to one of those erections, and now hope that it will spread the word about their sincerity with our money. The word "premature" comes to mind, if you catch my drift. Let's face is the NPA is still investigating the Edwafin matter, and at the prospects of the money of others, they have already latched themselves to somebody else's erection (you know what I mean - the tower, tsk, tsk, tsk.)

The next best thing was to log on the site and join the forum. Thus bearded Mario duly filled in all the required spaces; confirmed via email that I wanted to join the forum, and was informed that the moderator would have to check me out. Well, folkies, he/she/it is still checking as silence is the state of existence from Upward Spiral - and these people purport to be specialists in electronic communications. Well, let's face it "soort soek soort."

It is utter coincidence that Upward Spiral was last updated on 8 July 2009 (there is a peculiarity here as the original article was written on11 August - Einstein's ears are flapping as there are people who have actually mastered reverse time travel) while the new DMC came into existence around the same time. The quality of both sites seem to be on par - hey guys, like so many of you, I don't live even close to the seas, but it is surely getting smelly around here.

We will snoop on, an I love your assistance.

May I speak on your behalf?

<==== Patrick "I will abuse your money" Stapleton

Well, well, after some time of silence, you get two blog entries on one day. Although the weather is rather peculiar up here in Gauties today, and it may even snow, by the feel of it, let me put your mind at ease. No, I don't have too much time on my hands, but I do feel that special events demand special attention.

<==Don "oh, yes, yes, yes, your moneeeey, oooooh" Hutchinson

You see, I was worried that Don and Patrick might think that they are out of mind of us all. Perhaps I speak for the majority of you, when I say that they are still part of our synaptic activities, and I felt it my duty to welcome them back in our midst. Thus, without too much pensation, I wrote them a quick email, just to welcome their return to the wild world of other people's moneys - call it financing a life-style if you want.

This is what I said:

Good old Patrick and Don


Well, on behalf of all your previous investors I would like to give you a hearty welcome to the world of business and finance. There exists no doubt in my mind that this time round you will be equally as successful as you were with your Edwafin venture.


Of course your progress shall be followed and reported on in the minutest detail. Yes, you may not have looked for a while, but the blog has taken on a life of its own and shall now include the reference to your new undertaking. Now, I wonder, which of the two of you has such a fascinating predilection for the concept of “dynamic” as it keeps bobbing to the surface of your schemes. We shall work on that one well, won’t we. Your new email address has been added to my blog list so that you will be automatically aware of what is being said about you – a refreshing thought no doubt.


Oh, before I go. You are naturally inclined to throw all kinds of threats my way – don’t bother, as Patrick knows, I don’t scare easy.


Yours sincerely


Dr Mario Koppers

You will have noticed that I used my social title, this is just to ensure them that my welcome note was official. No, I didn't use their titles - the ones they are entitled to - because that might just ban me from blogging on Google.

Toodleloo

Stirrings in the world of finance

After some major silence, a few snippets of information need to be shared. No, the liquidators have not moved to an alternative universe they are merely hiding behind a distant red giant. Slowly I'm seeing my own prophetic vision manifest into solid  molecules of structure: the liquidators are like the seaweed you encounter on a Sunday morning stroll on the beach. You know it has an ecological purpose, and that it has emerged, rootlessly, from the deep depths. But now that it has found a place in your reality on the hot sands before you, you cannot for the life of you imagine, what its purpose in creation is. It is a browning, dark green in colour, and, yep, it stinks to high heaven (interesting expression that: something stinking to high heaven). Soon, - having occupied a small momentary place in our reality, it will have dissolved itself and be no more.

The Pair

However, that is not true of the "pair"" Patrick Stapleton and Don Hutchinson. These two seem to have elected to be joined at the hip, as will become clear soon.

Apparently the high life is still very strong with The Pair, and Patrick has been observed gallivanting all over the place in his high priced 4 x 4. Yes, folks he is putting our money to good use. At least we cannot fault him on that.

Remember, a while ago I reported on the probability that The Pair were planning their next operation of extortion. I suspected that its name would have something to do with dynamic. Well, one of our sleuths have encountered the following web site: http://dynamicmc.co.za/. Of course you are quite correct, the site is appallingly designed and incomplete, but baby-steps, yes baby-steps. When you have a look-see at the site's "Contact us" page you will note the addresses being right in the correct vicinity of The Pair's hunting ground.

Most beauteous of the site is the slogan at the top:

Risk analysis - Why run your company without the necessary knowledge of the risks attached to various decisions. DMC - let us show you the power behind knowledge.

The key word here is "risk analysis", and we are well versed in that aspect of finance aren't we, fellas? Yet, aren't we being ever so sneaky? Just like our other professional gobbler of other's money, Carole Gradiner, no names are attached to the new venture. Never mind, folks, we, the old Edwafin stalwarts will continue spreading the word for you - won't we now? We also have a very keen sense of smell.

To me it is just soooo fascinating that we have the archetype that only knows how to work, deal, take, and generally manipulate other people's money. Let's face it with their track record, no respectable company would employ them to do an honest days professional, quality work. What else can they do but operate sleaze-like through the reality of other souls. At least they get to call themselves "professional."

The Sherrif, yes the Sherrif

Remember Mr Sherrif of the NPA. Well he was going to visit some of us, for a chat. That was some months ago. Well, I can whisper in your ear that he has been to visit some investors, and that he is probably coming to Gauting this month. The wisdom of visiting Gauteng I would not like to comment upon. However, I am glad to have been proven wrong in my assumption that Mr Sherrif was merely a figment of my imagination. Yep, he really exists, according to reports. His appearance is nevertheless mostly fleeting, and one recovers from the shock very rapidly. We'll see.

Well, that is all for now, and I urge all of you to keep your eyes peeled for the appearances of The Pair as well as the other "innocents" of our production. Let us at least prevent others from falling into the same trap as we now are trying to extricate ourselves.

We'll speak soon again.

Not in my back pocket

When I opened this blog to submit the below, I was reminded of the days when it was hyper-important for me to have a comb in my back pocket. You see, the hair had to be perfect as I thought that that would be a good impression on the ladies.

I never realized, of course, that the state of my hair had nothing to do with the potentiality of a good time but nevertheless, the comb served me well. Of course more important was the state of the hair of the lady - but when young, one tends to be vain.

Today, I realized that I haven't needed a comb for many years now. Yes, so now and then a brush for the above-ear fluff. More important: I have realized that the state of the top of one's head has little influence on the appeal. At least not for me, while I wipe my gleaming patch.

Unlike my comb, I had not forgotten about you, and meant to write a few times already but family crises prevented frivolities. However, today arrived an E-mail from a person that looks like this:

Please could you send an email to all Edwafin Investors asking them the following as I think it will be better if the email comes from you.


If any of you did your investment in 2004 to 2006 I need to know if any of you have the document that indicated insurance cover from Lloyds of London or the 2 or 3 page document that indicated insurance cover from Investec which was provided when Patrick advised the cover had moved from Lloyds of London to Investec.
Investors were told the capital was covered by Lloyds of London and then later Investec.
If you have these documents in your possession please can you let me know as soon as possible?


They can email you and if you do not mind you could let me know if you have any positive response.

Kind Regards

For those who would like to participate, my E-mail address is mkoppers@chromatique.com.

Goody-goody

I found the Sherrif!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a bit late already but I thought to leave you a nighty-nighty note.

Via one of our stalwarts, I got a message today that she had spoken to Len Sherrif, and that I should also try to get hold of him.

So I picked up the phone, and voilà, there was Len Sherrif on the phone. In a way I was so flabbergasted by the unexpected encounter, that I fumbled through the whole telephonic conversation - and I'm not often at a loss for words. So what was said:

Len Sherrif is still on top of the game planning to interview a good number of investors, and November is the turn of us here in upper-Gauteng. Yes, you down in Natal and the Cape, there is a place on this round planet called Gauteng, and I live here - I might not be impressed with that fact, but hey, what can I do. At least we have little Pretoria here.

After all that fluff: there is still hope for action.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Has anyone seen the Sherrif?

I know I have been neglecting you, but then there was so little to say. One lonely anonymous begged for some news, and I have a teeny-weeny bit to give you.

Some weeks ago I contacted Mr Sherrif of the NPA with the intention of providing him with the details of those who's details I have. The idea was that he would then contact each of you and possible get a statement from you to use in a possible case against the Edwafin directors. At that moment he was in meeting, and in a friendly manner asked me to send him an sms with my contact details so that he could contact me back when he was free.

I did that.

No, he didn't

I tried again to contact him but have not had much success, but will try again. Perhaps some of you can also try and if you do get hold of him, tell him that he was going to call Mario.

We also got a note from an anonymous stating that the Edwafin liquidation site was down. Well it might have been down, but in this reality it is back up again. However, it is the most stupendously boring site on the web. There is nothing new and the last bit of circular on there is the second circular of early August. If you want to go and look, go here: http://www.edwafinliquidation.co.za.

I have also tried to keep track of the Stapletons, Hutchinsons and Gardiners amongst others, but there is a conspiracy of silence on the planet. CIPRO's site seems to only have a façade, as none of its links deeper into the organisation website work. Three hoorays for happy South Africa, where crime and criminal seems to be protected game. 

Nevertheless, we shall persist and continue our diligent work behind the scene. You see, I suspect that the good folks mentioned above, are back at work brewing their evil plans. Anybody out there who wants to give a hand?

Ta-ta

Another one

Just a short one this morning - I am watching the stock market, and need to focus on the trades I made this morning - gamble, gamble.

Some contacted me to ask the email address of Mr Sherrif as they had trouble contacting him telephonically. It appears that Mr Sherrif has been inundated with investors calling him and is now suffering from popularity-shock syndrome. Please be patient, and try again during the course of next week. I have tried to call him myself, and got to speak to him while he was in a meeting - now I'm waiting for him to call me back.

Should he share his email address with my I shall publish it if it is in order with him, but this will probably happen next week.

Now something completely alien to Edwafin

Are you enjoying your medical aid? If you have any interest in this topic at all, please visit my other blog dealing with medical schemes and how they siphon your monthly salary dry: here it is (click me).

Our own volksmoeder

Ever since birth I have been fascinated by the female-group of our society. For me it is as if they frequently show a deeper wisdom and insight into certain matters, oh so frequently lacking in the testosterone world. You might not agree, and perhaps you are correct in saying that they are merely similar souls with a different style jacket but what, let me have my dreams and conjectures. Our Afrikaans speaking brethren have a concept called "Volks Moeder": Mother of the Nation, and I have no idea what they actually mean with doubts that they themselves know. To me it conjectures a large pack of wolfs all having one or two females as their alpha mother, or perhaps a queen ant, an unmovable clump of flesh giving birth (via eggs) to hundred teeny-weeny suckling ants - that is if ants suckle. I doubt, though, that that is what the Volks Vaders have in mind (and we will discuss them at a later date, when clarity returns to thought.)

Perhaps they have in mind those ladies, sturdy in disposition, who get things done in life and thereby benefiting others as well. Please forgive me for mumbling; my tongue is now so firmly in my cheek that I'm not sure if I can retrieve it again. Anyway, amongst our readers and within our group we have one lady who has been formidable amidst all the Edwafin to-do, that I would like to elevate her to the Queen of Edwafin Action, our own Edwafinian volksmoeder. She wrote me an email the day before yesterday to the Edwafin Class action group, and I would like to quote part of her email. It is self-explanatory and does not need any elaboration.

Oooh so excited I am!!!!

It seems Mr Sherrif has not left the NPA but
merely that building!!!!! (???)

What a great conversation I've just
had!!!! I'm sure you can feel my excitement!!!!

He wants to send the
Directors to jail!!!!! All hail Len for President!!!

Len Sherrif has
said he needs to get affidavits from every investor. He has asked that I give
out his new office number and mobile number to anyone I know of so that he can
get as much information as possible. I have an appointment to see him in person
tomorrow at 1pm.

Len Sherrif 031 325 4331 and 082 906 9168 he has
invited telephone calls anytime of the day or night. I'm sure it's fine if you
send it to all on your list.

He will be travelling around the country to
the various centres to get affidavits from investors.

In terms of a
state ordered Forensic Audit, he has said it is quite a process and he has to
have quite a bit of proof. He reckons he'll be ready towards the end of the year.

In terms of the Insurance Policy, Len (yes we're on first name terms)
reckons that the Liquidators do have a case to bring to the insurance company for
the R20 million payout (it may not be much but it's better than a poke in the
eye with a forked stick I say). Len has "unofficially" given a copy of Merle
Winchester's affidavit to the liquidators. Apparently she is a Section 20
witness, which means she won't be prosecuted (for now - but Len reserves the
right to prosecute her at a later stage) in exchange for her testimony which is
quite damaging and definitely confirms fraud and misrepresentation.

Now you will understand why my chest has grown to such an extent over the last days, that my shirts have popped, while I'm talking in my sleep about the "other woman" in my life, to my wife's chagrin.

She has done the preparatory work. So let's now act on it. What's that?.... Her name? ..... Heh heh heh heh .....

News - News - News

For those who haven't seen it yet, the 2nd liquidator's circular has become available, and I have included it below. Please read carefully as it tries to provide answers to many of our questions.

It seems that every time we have some news about the state of Edwafin, the news deteriorates. Ponder back to the statements made by Stapleton and co-creators of disastrous events in the universe. In between there was cute little Verona with some figures of her own that still gave us some hope of a small return. One wonders if she is spinning her tales somewhere else now or is she perhaps awaiting the re-emergence of the famous smoke-and-rubber creators? One wonders with abated breath.

There are some interesting point, and I refer to the matter of Rainbow Paints and the opinion of the liquidators that a forensic audit should take place. If you wondered, yes, they will need some extra cash, as old Patrick did not leave much behind to be liquidated with. The interesting question now is if the authorities will come to the rescue as the liquidators hope, and if the investors are so convinced of their case that they themselves will contribute towards such expenses. Wonders, wonders, wonderings - entropy at its maximum.

From the contacts I have had with other investors, it seems that some are willing to pay a bit extra, while others just simply have no money left. Of course, there are also those who are ingeniously hoping that others will take care of the bill. I wonder. mmmm ....

PS. There is a problem with the blog editor and it refuses to display the document on the blog. However, by clicking on the link below you will be taken directly to the Scribd page and will be able to view it there.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18579936/20090812-Liquidator-Second-Circular

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Spring is in the air and the birds are chirping again, the dogs are smiling and wify is wagging her tail. Oops! I have that the wrong way round - I should say: the dogs are smiling and wagging their tails, and wife, well ... she is doing things ...

Of course the birds are singing in many ways as well - if you comprehend my thinly disguised implications. But first, let me announce: anonymous is back, and you may all write in under that non-de-plume. In a moment the reason will become clear to you. So for those with a romantic predilection for my butt, lustful longings for farm animals and yearnings for little children - we shall tolerate you but not publish you. So twirp away.



Although it is not quite Spring yet, the Universe has whispered in my ear that it soon will be, since we have put a structure in place that says on 1 September it will be Spring (here, elsewhere, such as in Europe, it will be Autumn - go figure. Humans are truly schitzo). Of course, we humanoids tend to think that the Universe takes notice of us, and it does but sometimes it preempt our wishes and manifests Spring a few weeks earlier. Yes, I know that it is indeed infuriating that the Universe sometimes acts according to its own whims, and acts out of turn but so do my in-laws and some things can just not be avoided.



Of course, with Spring comes new life, and it would be strange that the famous five of past-Edwafin would not breath in some of the new fresh air. That set my mind working again for a change.






We all are aware of the quick recovery that was made by Carole Gardiner. She dumped all those who invested through her in Edwafin and started a new organization called Lifestyle Bounceback. No doubt, many of her old Cape Town friends, once they get a moment between staring at their flat topped mountain, you know, the ones she has such a good relationship with, and who love her so much that they supported her whole heartily on this blog, that those good people have stood in line to pay her the little bit of money they had left so that she can help them get their life style back. I have it on some authority that she is in business with a similarly upstanding gentleman, who's original idea it was to create Edwabond in the first place, and who other investors are looking longingly at to invoke revenge of their own kind.



It never ceases to amaze me that the Universe has though of an archetype, whose sole role in society it is, to lift the possessions of other people. Carole, for instance, doesn't do knitting to make a living, nor does she bake cakes of the edible kind. No, she sweetly takes your money and makes you promises. Here is the name again: Carole Gardiner at LIFESTYLE BOUNCEBACK. It is interesting that when does a Google with Lifestyle Bounceback, you get, amongst a number of bouncing Americans, a link to the site called http://www.oceanfinance.co.za/LifestyleBounceBack.aspx. Most notable is that there are no names of individuals who make up the company, but that it is situated in Tygervalley. Is the Universe playing tricks again?



Of course little Carole worked her unique ability under the auspices of two other, similar, archetypes: Patrick Stapleton and Don Hutchinson:
and These blood-brothers have no seeming intention of getting you your lifestyle back, and one wonders how they will apply their finesse in future. Let us take a bet: Patrick will deal with a motorcar of some kind (above or below ground), yes a bird does not easily change its colours and one dynamically gets stuck to past issues so that predictability becomes a main feature of one's own Universe. Of course, one needs funds, money, cash to do such things but you never, never, never, use your own for then you cannot squander it freely. No one uses money extracted from others, while yours is safely hidden somewhere. In comes the slurker, Don. Now, please keep in mind I am just playing out an imaginary scenario. Again:

In comes Don and says to Patrick: "You know old Pat, that nice trick of yours to extract money from the good folk out there, and then make it disappear? "
Patrick: "Well ... I vaguely remember something like that. Do you mean to tell me that there are still folks out there who have money that we could get?"
Don: "Of course, there are, all those old pensioners, single moms and other silly entities with extra cash, just imagine!"
Patrick: "I am but Wow! that gives me an idea. Let us build another car, and get them to pay for it. We can have rich lunches every day, drive luxury cars, fool around a bit - you know, wink-wink. Yes. let's do that. What do you suggest."
Don: "I will start a company to get the cars investors - those silly old fools - and you get stuck on fabricating the fabrication of the cars. No, it does not matter if it ever gets finished, that is just for
show."
Patrick: "What a major plan! Once we have all their money we get declared incompetent - oops insolvent I mean, and then we hand then over to Carole for further intensive care. Majorly, indeed a masterful plan."
Don: "Sure, and we have all these good buddies whom we can depend upon to support us: SAVCA, NCC, DTI, FSB, and I will think of a few more."
Patrick: "Good, good, good (spittle dribbling down his left jowl). Now, what shall we call ourselves? Any ideas?"
Don:"Perhaps we should start separate companies, so that when one collapses, we still have the other. Let's think carefully about the names and about the colours we wish to represent ourselves
in. Sheep's cloths-colour wouldn't you say?"
Patrick: "Well, ity worked the first time round ... blah ...blah .. blahbiddyblah...."

Stay tuned for our next intriguing episode of The Repeat Of The Evil Conjecture or The Universe has a huge eye in the sky