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Fascinating! It was an enthralling read. Prof. Werner Nel who is mentioned in your article, taught Afrikaans and tried, with limited success, I am afraid, to start a choir at Kingswood College in the mid-1960s. He was an extremely nice person, but he could not control the hooligans, of which I was one, who he was trying to train. We knew something of his origins and had nicknamed him “Schnapps”, and as most of us had a father who’d fought in the Second World War, we sabotaged his valiant attempt to bring a layer of culture hitherto absent into the life of the school. He left Kingswood, and once or twice in the early 70s I saw him in Pretoria. I am glad his intelligence and voice got him the recognition he deserved. He was a very decent and kind man. I am a little abashed now at the way we treated him then.
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I find that the article attempts to characterise Lothar Neethling as a murderous thug albeit an intellectual one to be disingenuous and wilful.
The mere fact that he came from Germany as a child with a Nazi upbringing was hardly his fault. He survived his reality. To say that he was an evil person because he supplied poison to a senior policeman on request and by means, I have no doubt, of due process, is to say that everyone who fought against the ANC /APLA/UDF terrorists and supporters are were criminal is far fetched to say the least.
All elected governments have the right to defend themselves against violent attacks likewise their citizens. The use of any means to defend is a pillar of Roman Dutch law. Even the UK and US subscribe to that tenent. The only reason why both RSA and Allied govts did not kill their opposite leaders was simply because it made it more difficult to follow their subsequent policy changes by the replacement leaders. And so on.
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Not every orphan turned out to be an afrikaner. I am an english speaking catholic.
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