Muis

Frost, champion jockey Michael "Muis" Roberts, SA cricket captain

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

He kept up a correspondence and was often in controversy with the noted savants of the day, such as Muis, Buxtorf, etc.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

The justification, observes Muis is that in a political - and politicised - organisation "might makes right" all too often.

"We have ways of breaking people like you" Richard 2005

This extraordinary situation, Muis says, "is not just the result, but also a major cause of the chronically sordid state of quality accounting".

"Mission impossible" Richard 2005

Then Muis is asked about an note he had written to the Kinnock cabinet about a "perceived hostile working environment" in the directorate, when the commission cites a number of anonymous witnesses giving "favourable comments" on the efforts made by the directorate to integrate Andreasen.

"Mission impossible" Richard 2005

Muis, who was recruited from the World Bank as a trouble-shooter to help clean up the commission accounting system, had "director general" status, which put him at the top of the pecking order in terms of seniority.

"We have ways of breaking people like you" Richard 2005

Booker then picks up the story we ran on this Blog, commenting on the Muis story broken by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in The Daily Telegraph.

Booker Richard 2005

But Muis did not recall any commission accountant stepping up to the plate saying 'I am the first accountable; what are your questions?'

"Mission impossible" Richard 2005

The implications that can be drawn from the Muis e-mail, therefore, are that the commission has the "touchy-feely" Wallström "front" and the dark, sinister reality that lurks behind it.

The two faces of the commission Richard 2005

Muis replies that, a very short time after his letter to the Kinnock cabinet, Andreasen had been removed from her job.

"Mission impossible" Richard 2005