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Following on from Breyten Breytenbach’s remarkable piece in Rapport, where he lambasted the current South African regime and called for another, ex-foreign minister Pik Botha has responded to Breytenbach.
Here is an extract of what Pik Botha’s said:
“Die wit mense en in besonder die Afrikaners staan voor strawwe uitdagings.
Eerstens moet die onderskeid tussen “wit” [...]

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Today I read about a Canadian couple that was attacked near Hermanus. This attack could be significant. Canada will soon pronounce on an landmark asylum case of a white South African that claimed asylum on the basis that whites are not safe in South Africa.
The truth is of course that all South Africans are not [...]

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The BBC recently featured Bishop Tutu in a Tutu-for-Dummies style documentary. I got wind of it because Tom, a friend  saw me in it. Gerrie, another friend captured the bit about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in which I feature (see if can spot me around 20 seconds), and here it is below.

One thing struck [...]

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After Gavin Evan’s close escape he gets call ups. His low profile ended. Their ANC unit was broken up, and he worked individually from Harare, where he visited Brett Myrdal, and smuggled stuff back to SA. Gavin deals with the question of whether the ECC was an ANC organisation.
This was also the time of [...]

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Gavin Evans tells more about the launch of the ECC and it’s predecessor COSG. He talks about the tension between the Christian pacifist objectors and the young student radicals. He also talks about spy Rob Whitecross and the arrest of Carl Niehaus for plotting to blow up the Johannesburg gas works, and his own short [...]

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The battle against conscription to the SADF hots up, Gavin himself is sent to Johannesburg to campaign against conscription to the SADF there. This was because the ANC thought the pamphlet and other incidents in Cape Town (part 6) might expose him.
Gavin Evans and Janet Cherry were in the same underground ANC unit
Photo Gavin Evans.

This [...]

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The plot thickens. Chris Hani and Joe Jelle were opposed to NUSAS & Thabo Mbeki’s policy of strategic participation. Back in South Africa, Gavin and his new unit consisting of Richard Goode, and Janet Cherry had to communicate the ANC position that military service was not acceptable.
This was against the established position of NUSAS [...]

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