Strategy Network International In June 1990, Hamilton was recruited by the right-wing Monday Club activist Derek Laud to work for Strategy Network International, a firm specifically created to lobby against anti-apartheid movements and economic sanctions and for apartheid South Africa's 'transitional government' of Namibia set up in defiance of UN Resolution 435 on Namibian independence. Derek Laud was an ex-Monday Club activist and protégé of Hamilton's friend Michael Brown, who offered Hamilton a fee of £8,000 per year. Hamilton failed to register the paid-for consultancy. Hamilton took free trips to South Africa in the company of Brown.Patricia Wynn Davies, "The Attack on Sleaze: How apartheid regime set out to woo Tories", The Independent, 26 October 1994- David Leigh & Ed Vulliamy, Sleaze, the Corruption of Parliament, page 136, - Select Committee on Standards and Privileges First Report iv. STRATEGY NETWORK INTERNATIONAL, Hansard.
Strategy Network International In June 1990, Hamilton was recruited by the right-wing Monday Club activist Derek Laud to work for Strategy Network International, a firm specifically created to lobby against anti-apartheid movements and economic sanctions and for apartheid South Africa's 'transitional government' o,f Namibia set up in defiance of UN Resolution 435 on Namibian independence. Derek Laud was an ex-Monday Club activist and protégé of Hamilton's friend Michael Brown, who offered Hamilton a fee of £8,000 per year. Hamilton failed to register the! paid-for consultancy. Hamilton took free trips to South Africa in the company of Brown.Patricia Wynn Davies, "The Attack on Sleaze: How apartheid regime set out to woo Tories", The Independent, 26 October 1994- David Leigh & Ed Vulliamy, Sleaze, the Corruption of Parliament, page 136, - Select Committee on Standards and Privileges First Report i!v. STRATEGY NETWORK INTERNATIONAL, Hansard.