Allister Sparks, notorious Boerhater, has apologised and blamed “senility” for his comments on Hendrik Verwoerd, in a bid not to push away more black DA voters.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the DA congress in Port Elizabeth, he named apartheid architect Hendrik Verwoerd among “smart politicians” he had encountered in his 64 years as a journalist and analyst.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, Sparks tried to cover his tracks: “In truth, Verwoerd and his policies appalled me.”<\/p>\n
On the BDLive website , he explained the “context” of his senile remarks.<\/p>\n
“I recognised that Verwoerd was a formidable figure. His dominance of his own party was total, to the extent that National Party MPs would hiss with outrage if any opposition MP ventured even a mild interjection. They hung on to his every word as he spelt out the details of his grand scheme of separating the races into ‘separate countries’.<\/p>\n
“And he was clever, which is what I meant when I called him ‘smart’.”<\/p>\n
Blacks took to social media to complain about Sparks’ vile racism, something the \u00fcber-liberal Sparks hardly expected as he probably believed his own rants about “white racists” exonorated him from black criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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