kameraad mhambi

# Slabbert: “The apartheid regime had oppressive stability. We now have a vibrant civil society”.

# Slabbert: “Crime is also a form of civil society participation, a negative one, but riddled with entrepreneurs.”

# Slabbert: South Africans should “not to fall for an invented history”. Including the myth that Cuban forces had defeated the SADF at Cuito Cuanavale.

# Slabbert: South Africa’s struggle past was being selectively used to establish a racially exclusive Africanism as “the new dominant ideology”. Slabbert said our invented history was being used to create dangerous myths.

# Van Zyl Slabbert: “I refused to be in the slipstream of the government’s repression and incompetence”, when he resigned from parliament.
Fellow front-bencher Helen Suzman labeled it betrayal.

# “The trouble with this country is you have too many politicians with balls but no brains.” After he was accused of having a brain for politics but not the balls.

# Breyten Breytenbach: “Slabbert was too trusting of a cynical ANC manipulated by a duplicitous Mbeki.”

A review of a recent book in tribute of Slabbert said:

The general conclusion is that Slabbert, an immensely gifted and principled man with strong analytical ability and a deep sense of morality, was ultimately a politically tragic figure destined for an outsider’s role. Kadalie mentions his self doubt, a common failing of the intelligent.

A great man. But I can’t help wondering whether he should not have stood up more for the young democracy during Mbeki’s time.

To understand the regard he was held in just see the comments on this page.

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