2006-11-01 02:03:21 · 7 answers · asked by kau la poo 2 in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ Other - Africa & Middle East
He was offered one, his family turned it down. The flags are at halfmast and he is given the due respect. Indeed the ANC showing once again how much better they are than the Apartheid government.
2006-11-01 07:56:01 · answer #1 · answered by wagbietjie 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
As a former state president he shoud. My reaction to his death is mixed. I respect him for the fact that it was he who started the process of opening the doors to the people the NP had been oppressing for years. However, he was still representative of a very oppressive regime.
Everyone who mouths the platitude that Nelson Mandela and his ilk are terrorists conveniently forget that the actions of the ANC were in opposition to the methods employed by the former government to silence any of those who expressed beliefs differing from the NP ruling party.
Eugene De Kock, former commander of Vlakplaas highlights just some of the attrocities practised against opposing voices in his book, A Long Night's Work. Warfare by Other Means: South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s by Peter Stiff also highlights some of these (to a lesser extent) and notes how:
"Dynamic Teaching CC was used to inculcate blacks with an anti-communist attitude and to portray the ANC and its associates as the anti-Christ."
"How it assassinated perceived enemies of the State. It deals with the establishment of the infamous Project Coast as a biological/chemical warfare unit. It tells how the Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB) succeeded Project Barnacle. How personnel of both used Project Coast's toxins to ruthlessly poison prisoners and even its own black operators if they were suspected of disloyalty. How they disposed of the bodies by dumping them from an aircraft out at sea. It deals with a swathe of assassinations, destruction and mayhem committed at home and abroad. How anthrax letters were mailed to enemies of the State."
and
"It details the murderous subversive activities of a diversity of right-wing organisations, like Eugene Terre'blance's AWB and General Constand Viljoen's Afrikaner Volksfront, who with the probable early backing of the SADF, almost toppled South Africa over the brink into Civil War before the first democratic election in April 1994."
For being at the head of these activities and for being aware of them (although he claims otherwise) I feel revulsion toward him.
2006-11-02 10:22:38 · answer #2 · answered by Ni Ten Ichi Ryu 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He was the cause of a lot of deaths and a lot of misery.
Your question is rather like saying. Should Saddam have a state funeral.
None of the previous regime were leaders as they were not elected by the majority.
2006-11-02 11:02:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
He is entitled to one but the bottom line is he didn't want one. Makes sense in terms of who he was. He hated communism and fought it and the ANC for his whole political life so he would hardly want to be buried by them or have them anywhere near his resting place.
Wagbietjie - The only thing the ANC are better at than the NP is theft. Dont think for 1 minute they had or have any respect for Botha. It's a little Political game to appease their donor Countries and fools like you.
2006-11-01 11:16:56 · answer #4 · answered by Alf Garnett 2 · 3⤊ 5⤋
Apparently he didn't want one, i guess guilt got to him, and so he's going to have a private burial.
(By the way " Lebitso la gago le a rogana" but stll cool!)
2006-11-02 23:41:29 · answer #5 · answered by T.I 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, As Siyad Bare of Somalia had one before.
2006-11-01 10:32:29 · answer #6 · answered by Ali M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's debatable.
I see 'wagbietjie's' back. What are you doing around here, hon? No one here but us South Africans.
2006-11-02 16:40:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋