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Max Du

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APARTHEID

FW de Klerk’s ‘quantum leap’: Did he jump or was he pushed?

The motives of the ‘last apartheid president’ can only be truly understood within a 20-year context.

  • Max Du
  • Preez Author
15 min read
ANC

Max du Preez: I can no longer be associated with the Independent group

I feel tainted by my association with the Independent Media group. It is time to depart once again. I will betray my own past if I don’t.

  • Max Du
  • Preez Author
5 min read
The Last Afrikaner Leaders adds to existing testimony that PW Botha did suffer a stroke in March 1985
APARTHEID

PW Botha’s secret stroke blocked path of reform

Did the rupture of a blood vessel in PW Botha’s brain prevent SA from starting the process of a negotiated settlement in 1985 rather than in 1990?

  • Max Du
  • Preez Author
8 min read
25 YEARS AGO

Portrait of a brave, wit kaffir

We were drinking beer at a Windhoek hotel. A couple of toughs yelled at Anton Lubowski: Jou wit kaffir!

  • Max Du
  • Preez Author
5 min read