Re: You are absolutely obsessed with race. What is it with you? If you think you can upset me with continual racial innuendos you are wrong...
Talking of "racial innuendos", do you consider yourself an "African" or merely a "British/Anglo transplant" --a sort of white immigrant living in South Africa? Clue:
Gus > But there are some who say Cardinal Arinze is an intellectual lightweight
Now you are being racist. Don't you know that every African is a genius?! I didn't but my government has taught me so.
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And how's your pal Dr Basson doin'? Did he improve his handicap lately? Clue:
Gus > what's up with your golfmate, Dr W. Basson?
Yes, indeed. And a very interesting man, too.
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Footnote:
TIME EUROPE
June 12, 2000 VOL. 155 NO. 23
Reliving Apartheid Horrors
The trial of a South African cardiologist accused of murder reopens old wounds
By PETER HAWTHORNE Pretoria
After two years of harrowing depositions before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africans may have thought they had heard the worst, and the last, of the evil deeds of the apartheid era. That was until the trial began of Wouter Basson, an experienced heart surgeon who still works as a part-time cardiologist at a state hospital. According to the 350-page indictment Basson now faces in the Pretoria High Court, he is responsible for the murder of at least 16 antiapartheid activists and conspiracy to kill many more. The trial of the 50-year-old doctor, which began last October, is likely to last as long as the T.R.C. hearings. Like that tribunal, it is producing testimony ranging from the bizarre to the horrific.
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