ANTHEAP REBUKE - A flimsy tale
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INTRO: ANTHEAP REBUKE
In or around 1991, the year the Hamster
Commission started its enquiry into col-
lusion between government and gangsters,
especially those from Cape Flats, the follow-
ing events give some historical background:
Maggie Thatcher enjoyed a walk-about in
Parliament`s Garden.
The first white squatter lived in a Paarl township.
Bertie Reed saved yachtsman John Martin in
the southern Atlantic. Car thefts surge.
Anton Rupert is listed on the Forbes 100 rich list.
UCT workers and staff go on strike and
endanger year-end exams. Edward Peaches
is shot dead near Athlone power station.
Allegedly 5000 year old skeleton of Oetzi, the
mountain man, found in the Austrian Alps.
Mount Pinatubo erupts near Philippine`s capital,
Manila.
The Soviet Union folds and its last and only
President, Mikael Gorbatchov, held hostage
in Crimea.
The Hamster Commission, eagerly awaited,
hotly debated and long overdue, is a fully
fictitious event. I invented it and was lucky
to draw on my collection of source material
from those heady days 30 years ago.
When the Apartheid government and ANC-
run opposition came face to face at Kempton
Park´s World Trade Centre in December.
CODESA thrashing out a surprisingly
unanimous constitutional framework.
That would became law after the 1994
elections and highlight South Africa`s
thorny path to democracy, to social
cohesion, even freedom.
Yet to get there a lot of blood had to
be shed and the country was rattled
by allegations of government involve-
ment in networks of trained assassins.
Out to stifle, harm and kill opposition
activists. Recruited by either a secret
police or military unit. Its aim: cause
utmost damage among anti-Apartheid
campaigners....
In or around 1991, the year the Hamster
Commission started its enquiry into col-
lusion between government and gangsters,
especially those from Cape Flats, the follow-
ing events give some historical background:
Maggie Thatcher enjoyed a walk-about in
Parliament`s Garden.
The first white squatter lived in a Paarl township.
Bertie Reed saved yachtsman John Martin in
the southern Atlantic. Car thefts surge.
Anton Rupert is listed on the Forbes 100 rich list.
UCT workers and staff go on strike and
endanger year-end exams. Edward Peaches
is shot dead near Athlone power station.
Allegedly 5000 year old skeleton of Oetzi, the
mountain man, found in the Austrian Alps.
Mount Pinatubo erupts near Philippine`s capital,
Manila.
The Soviet Union folds and its last and only
President, Mikael Gorbatchov, held hostage
in Crimea.
The Hamster Commission, eagerly awaited,
hotly debated and long overdue, is a fully
fictitious event. I invented it and was lucky
to draw on my collection of source material
from those heady days 30 years ago.
When the Apartheid government and ANC-
run opposition came face to face at Kempton
Park´s World Trade Centre in December.
CODESA thrashing out a surprisingly
unanimous constitutional framework.
That would became law after the 1994
elections and highlight South Africa`s
thorny path to democracy, to social
cohesion, even freedom.
Yet to get there a lot of blood had to
be shed and the country was rattled
by allegations of government involve-
ment in networks of trained assassins.
Out to stifle, harm and kill opposition
activists. Recruited by either a secret
police or military unit. Its aim: cause
utmost damage among anti-Apartheid
campaigners....