NOVA JAARSTTE VIR DIE JAAR EINDIGEND 28 FEBRUARIE 2025 IS NIE GEPUBLISEER TEEN JAAREINDE 28 FEBRUARIE 2026 NIE
Ons het inligting sedert ontvang wat verklaar het dat die interne oudit nog nie voltooi is nie, wat verder beteken dat die rekeninge nog nie eers aan die eksterne ouditeure vir hersiening en goedkeuring voorgelê is nie. Hierdie inligting het geen besonderhede ingesluit oor waarom die oudit nie voltooi is nie, maar dit verg nie te veel verbeelding om te glo dat die tyd dalk aangebreek het wanneer dit nie meer vir CEO/CFO Haese en Voorsitter Myburgh moontlik is om die boeke te manipuleer sodoende om ‘n aanvaarbare momentopname (snapshot) van ‘n lewensvatbare maatskappy te bied nie
Wat is die implikasies hiervan – van ‘n maatskappy wat aanhou aandring dat dit , ‘n “going concern” is en ….
“ …… here because we fundamentally believe we can succeed in getting as much of these investors’ historical money invested back to them. At Nova, we work tirelessly in achieving this goal; we have been and are their best chance to getting it done”
Dit is, na vyftien jaar van Nova-bestuur, so tragies vir die grootste deel van die agt-en-dertigduisend individuele Sharemax-beleggers en in baie gevalle hul opvolgers, wat steeds wag op skuldbriefterugbetaling en vir wie die Nova-missie (die publiek verklaarde een, in elk geval) was om die geld wat hulle belê het, terug te gee en wat hulle nêrens naby gekom het om te bereik nie, ten spyte van hul voortdurende versekerings en protes
Wat moet nou gebeur?
Ons glo dat daar te veel optrede deur die Voorsitter en die Raad was wat nie tot voordeel van die beleggers was nie en dat hulle duidelik misluk het om die vereistes van hul missie te lewer
Ons gaan selfs so ver as om ons mening te stel dat die doel van die sakeredding wat in 2011 voorgestel is, nooit oor die beleggers gegaan het nie, maar alles oor korporatiewe kaping en selfverryking met die doel om die geërfde eiendomsportefeulje van sy bates te stroop – wat grootliks bereik is en wat voortduur, alhoewel nie deur openlike optrede nie, maar deur slinksheid en onderduimse aksies
Ons glo dat die maatskappy nou onder administrasie geplaas moet word, maar nie met die oog op likwidasie nie – wat nie in die beste belang van die beleggers sou wees nie – maar met die oog daarop om die Voorsitter en die Raad van beheer oor die maatskappy te verwyder, dit onder ‘n tussentydse bestuur te plaas wie se enigste doel sal wees om te stabiliseer, te herbou en te groei sodat, ten minste, dié van die geërfde eiendomme wat op die boeke bly, hul ware doel kan dien, naamlik groei in waarde om die fondse te realiseer wat nodig is om die verwante skuldbriewe terug te betaal
Dit is geweldig ironies dat die voertuig vir die sakeredding in 2011 Nova PropGROW genoem is (of was dit ‘n doelbewus misleidende aksie?) en sedertdien was daar geen groei van enige aard nie en eintlik die teenoorgestelde en rampspoedig so!
Ons het gevolglik Cuma Zwane by CIPC oor die saak aangespreek per e-pos met hierdie pleidooi:
Hello Mr Zwane
As usual, Nova failed to publish their 2025 Annual Financial Statements by the deadline stipulated in the Companies Act. They have also now failed to publish by 28 February 2026. JP Tomp, the Nova Debenture Trustee may already have addressed you re this situation
We would like to appeal to CIPC (dare we demand?) for action via a famous quote (and an allegorical one for the purpose of this mail) from President Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on June 12, 1989 when he said:
MR GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!
In the same vein as Reagan’s appeal, we appeal to you: MR ZWANE: HAS THE NOVA BUSINESS RESCUE AND DEBENTURE REPAYMENT FARCE NOT NOW, AND DEFINITELY, GONE ON TOO LONG?
We are posting the following content in our Facebook page and web site and we urge you to take it on board and give it serious consideration (should you not already be contemplating such action):
We have received information stating that the internal audit has not yet been completed which further means that the accounts have not yet even been submitted to the external auditors for review and approval. This information did not include any detail as to why the audit is not finished but it does not require too much imagination to believe that maybe the time has arrived when it is no longer possible for CEO/CFO Haese and Chair Myburgh to juggle the books sufficiently so as to present an acceptable snapshot of a viable company
We are of the strong opinion that the Chair and Board of Nova can no longer be allowed to continue as they have been doing since around 2013. We believe that they do not have, and have never have had, the interests of the Sharemax investors at heart and as their guiding star
We believe that there have been too many actions by the Chair and the Board that have not been for the benefit of the investors and that they have manifestly failed to deliver the obligations of their mission (the publicly stated one, anyway)
We go so far as to state our opinion that the purpose of the business rescue put forward in 2011 was never about the investors and all about corporate capture and self-enrichment with the intention to strip the inherited property portfolio of its assets – which has largely been achieved and which continues albeit not through overt actions but by deviousness and subterfuge
We believe that the company should now be put under administration but not with a view to liquidation – which would not be in the best interests of the investors – but with a view to removing the Chair and the Board from control of the company, placing it under an interim management whose sole purpose will be to stabilise, re-build and grow so that, at the very least, those of the inherited properties that remain on the books can serve their true purpose, viz; growing in value in order to realise the funds necessary to repay the related debentures
There are some lines in an old English hymn titled The Church’s One Foundation” which read:
Yet saints their watch are keeping, their cry goes up, “How long?” And soon the night of weeping shall be the morn of song!
For the Sharemax investors it’s more a case of: When will the night of weeping, become the morn of song?
CIPC can make that happen, at least in part, by an immediate action against the Chair and the Board of Nova
Thank you in hope of what we deem would be an entirely appropriate action