Jeremy Ord
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Oct 9, 2026
Alec HoggHOST
He apologizes unreservedly.
Alec HoggHOST
And he names Jeremy Ord, Stephen Nathan, Saki Maseikos, and Grant Bodley.
Alec HoggHOST
He doesn't name the sixth.
Alec HoggHOST
Bruce Doc Watson, who is kept very quiet.
Alec HoggHOST
that dropped it an astonishing 98%.
Alec HoggHOST
At the time, the executive said that those sales, which were made just months before the profit warning, were funding employee options and that they took a hiding along with everyone else.
Alec HoggHOST
In a follow-up interview this morning, David apologized to Jeremy Ord for muddling those dates on Wednesday.
Alec HoggHOST
Gracious.
Alec HoggHOST
Hasn't been before the appeal court.
Alec HoggHOST
Is it a confession or a settlement term? That's really where Jeremy Ord, Lazarus and that group are, what they are arguing.
David ShapiroGUEST
It's very interesting.
David ShapiroGUEST
First of all, Neil's not the advocate for them.
David ShapiroGUEST
He is an advocate, but he's not acting for them in the court case.
David ShapiroGUEST
So why does
Alec HoggHOST
Jeremy Ord tell me to talk to him, David?
David ShapiroGUEST
Oh, I don't look...
Paul HoffmanGUEST
But Doc Watson is just not featuring, he's not part of the pushback.
Paul HoffmanGUEST
which we have seen yesterday from Jeremy Ord and the gentleman you've mentioned.
Paul HoffmanGUEST
Paul?
Alec HoggHOST
Interesting case.
Paul HoffmanGUEST
I was simply trying to set the stage properly.
Paul HoffmanGUEST
What we have is incomplete litigation.
Paul HoffmanGUEST
The matter was heard on paper in the Gauteng Court, and Denise Fisher, the judge in the matter, found for the Japanese and had some really strong words to say about the way that Jeremy Ord and the other Dimension Data directors or players, I think Doc Watson is just a player rather than a director, And all of them were ordered to pay back the money and unscramble the deal and restore the status ante quo, as lawyers like to say.
Paul HoffmanGUEST
And that is on appeal.
Alec HoggHOST
You don't agree to pay that kind of money unless there's a pretty good reason for it.
Alec HoggHOST
In his confession, he names Jeremy Ord, Stephen Nathan, Saki Misaikos, and Grant Bodley as his co-adventurers.
Alec HoggHOST
The other four denied it.
Alec HoggHOST
They came out with a statement last night saying that he was under pressure and so he just made a deal for himself.
Paul HoffmanGUEST
But Doc Watson is just not featuring.
Paul HoffmanGUEST
He's not part of the pushback.
Paul HoffmanGUEST
which we have seen yesterday from Jeremy Ord and the gentleman you've mentioned.
Paul HoffmanGUEST
Paul,
Stephen GrootesHOST
Jason Goodall says that instead of the transaction really benefiting a BEE group, instead he and five friends who helped him to run Dimension Data before it was taken over by NDD were the people who were going to benefit.
Stephen GrootesHOST
But four of the other people involved, including Jeremy Ord, still deny that.
Stephen GrootesHOST
case is currently still before the supreme court of appeal duncan mcleod is the founder and editor at tech central who's led so much of the reporting on this duncan good evening i'm sure i've oversimplified the story but i mean dimension data was a hugely successful south african company it did sort of go back a little bit it was bought by ntt ntt wanted to sell the campus in brianston how did this group come to be accused of being at both ends of this deal this
Duncan McLeodGUEST
Yes, good evening, Stephen.
Stephen GrootesHOST
Jason Goodall says that instead of the transaction really benefiting a BEE group, instead he and five friends who helped him to run Dimension Data before it was taken over by NTT said, were the people who are going to benefit.
Stephen GrootesHOST
But four of the other people involved, including Jeremy Ord, still deny that.
Stephen GrootesHOST
The case is currently still before the Supreme Court of Appeal.
Stephen GrootesHOST
Duncan McLeod is the founder and editor at Tech Central.
Alec HoggHOST
This is the middle of all the controversy.
Alec HoggHOST
And he names Jeremy Ord, Stephen Nathan, Saki Masaikos, and Grant Bodley as fellow travellers.
Alec HoggHOST
Just to put the seal on the deal, he's paying NTT 208 million rand to make it all go away.
Alec HoggHOST
They were the aristocrats of South Africa's tech industry, Ord & Co.
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Alec HoggHOST
ago.
Alec HoggHOST
And Judge Fisher's judgment was, as I mentioned, the interest gaping.
Alec HoggHOST
Jeremy Ord phoned me, and boy, did he shout at me.
Alec HoggHOST
He gave me the, what was it called, the Alex Ferguson treatment.