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Rodney Selection Skulduggery update

by Whaleoil on February 18, 2011

Well the tipline has run hot today. Below is a transcript of one of the messages, but since the sentiments are the same as many of the others I am publishing it because of the apparent attempt to hijack a democratic selection to ensure that one of the “brethren” gets selected.

“Hi, I just want to inform you regarding the latest update on Rodney, Cehill Pienaar is really involved. In fact I’m sure he is the ring leader in helping Brent get those votes, there are many of us extremely disgusted with what is going on, and believe Cehill is in the thick of it and your blog is wrong about him being a good bloke”

The calls and the people now talking have become overwhelming. What concerns me is that with at least one of the candidates known to be a scrapper that this could all end up being discussed in a court and poor Peter Kiely will have to expend an enormous amount of energy hosing down the issues.

I outlined possible solutions to the issue, but I think now that an audit of the membership is mandatory before any delegates are appointed and also that the Regional Chair step in and ask Cehill Pien­aar to recuse himself from any involvement with selecting delegates. I have far more faith in Alan Towers as a fair arbiter than I do with anyone else doing it.

It is only fair to the other four good, honest candidates that have put their names forward. The last thing the party needs is more allegations of interference in the party from religious brethren. Please note that I am using a small ‘b’ brethren and am in no way saying that the Exclusive Brethren are involved.

This sort of nonsense has no place in the National party and it is why I am bringing it all out into the open.

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  • grantmichaelmckenna

    I met Cehill Pienaar in South Africa, when he was an MP for the Conservative Party, which regarded the South African National Party as being too soft. He advocated a ‘no’ vote in the South African referendum of 1992, which was about whether or not whites supported negotiating an end to apartheid. The ‘yes’ vote won, and there was no civil war.
    Pienaar became a senator for the Inkatha Freedom Party in 1996, and seems to have emigrated here while still drawing a salary as a senator- I am uncertain of when he resigned. He may have quit before leaving, but seems to have been here before his official immigration to NZ in 1999. It is possible that exposure to New Zealand has changed his views and character, and that his support for apartheid is behind him.

    If it hasn’t, I would suggest that he emigrate again, to Queensland, perhaps?

    • http://whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz Whaleoil

      http://www.e-tools.co.za/newsbrief/1992/news9208.14

      PRETORIA Aug 13 Sapa

      Five dissident Conservative Party members resigned from the party on Thursday, they announced at a meeting at the house of Pretoria advocate Chris de Jager, one of the dissidents.

      The group of disaffected MPs are Andries Beyers, (Potchefstroom), Free State leader Cehill Pienaar (Heilbron), Moolman Mentz (Ermelo), Rosier de Ville (Standerton) and Mr de Jager (Bethal).

      The division between the two factions first clearly emerged on June 27 this year when the five distributed a document entitled “The Road Ahead” at an extraordinary CP congress in Pretoria.

      Party leader Dr Andries Treurnicht said after a CP Hoofraad meeting in Preotia on Thursday if a solution could not be found before the party’s forthcoming special congress, the congress would have to rule on the issue.

      Dr Treurnicht said the Hoofraad was not prepared to endorse the five’s proposed policy amendments at the party’s next special congress.

      The split hinges on the crucial point of the geography of a white homeland, and at what stage negotiations should be conducted with other political leaders.

      “The executive would like to invite the five to have further talks in order to reach consensus regarding these outstanding points before the congress,” Dr Treurnicht said.

      Mr Pienaar, the only one of the five dissident MPs serving on the Hoofraad, opposed the proposal that the five be invited to have further talks, and apparently delivered the midnight ultimatum.

      The five announced their resignation at Mr de Jager’s house after the Hoofraad meeting.

    • http://whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz Whaleoil

      and then there is this:

      The split followed the party Hoofraad’s rejection of an ultimatum by the five to reply to their demands by midnight.

      A visibly upset Dr Treurnicht said after the meeting the Hoofraad was not prepared to endorse the five’s proposed policy amendments at the party’s next special congress.

      The split hinged on the crucial point of the geography of a white homeland, and at what stage negotiations should be conducted with other political leaders.

      Making a last-ditch attempt to maintain unity, Dr Treurnicht said: “The executive would like to invite the five to have further talks in order to reach consensus regarding these outstanding points before the congress.”

      Mr Pienaar, the only one of the five dissident MPs serving on the Hoofraad, opposed the proposal that the five be invited to have further talks, and apparently delivered the midnight ultimatum.

      Clearly Mr Pienaar hasn’t changed his spots when it comes to dirty politics. Ultimatums delivered at midnight? WTF? We don’t need this crap in New Zealand.

  • http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/ inventory2

    Sounds like he would be a better fit for Winston First …

  • cadwallader

    What line of business is Mr Pienaar in? He would seem to be too old to be in a Super XV starting line-up…although he could be in the middle of a scrum. I suggest IV2 could well be right, he’d get along well with Winston and Dementia United.