Hermann Pretorius
Christo van der Rheede’s latest somewhat vituperative response to me is revealing. Instead of answering the central question, he accuses me of caricature, polemic, “ideological compression”, and fabricating the FW de Klerk Foundation’s position. That is a convenient move, but, I am afraid, it will simply not do.
The issue is not my tone. Nor is it whether Van der Rheede personally opposes apartheid. Of course he does. The issue is not whether the Foundation has, at times, criticised rigid racial targets and permanent racial bureaucracy. It has. The issue is this: Van der Rheede has over recent weeks repeatedly defended the idea that post-1994 laws that use race for…
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