I FIRST became acquainted with the ANC on January 8 1984 in Lusaka – I attended their press conference at the movement's annual birthday celebration.
Then a 33-year-old Boerseun from the Free State, and a political correspondent for the mouthpiece of white big business, the Financial Mail, I met the communists I had been warned about my entire life. Bloodthirsty terrorists who wanted to force out whites like me and turn my country into a satellite state of the Soviet Union.
Initially, I felt a bit like Piet Retief, but I was curious about the people the United Nations called the “sole and authentic representatives of the South African people”...
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ARISTOCRATIC COMRADES
The ANC’s hubris is its downfall
MAX DU PREEZ navigates recent history to understand the ANC's rise and fall after reading a new book on the subject.
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I FIRST became acquainted with the ANC on January 8 1984 in Lusaka – I attended their press conference at the movement's annual birthday celebration.
Then a 33-year-old Boerseun from the Free State, and a political correspondent for the mouthpiece of white big business, the Financial Mail, I met the communists I had been warned about my entire life. Bloodthirsty terrorists who wanted to force out whites like me and turn my country into a satellite state of the Soviet Union.
Initially, I felt a bit like Piet Retief, but I was curious about the people the United Nations called the “sole and authentic representatives of the South African people”...
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