FW de Klerk calls for inquiry into alleged paedophile

Cape Town - Former president FW de Klerk has called for an investigation into the allegations of a paedophile ring involving a National Party minister in an explosive book, The Lost Boys of Bird Island.

De Klerk said he would have insisted on a “thorough” investigation had he known of the activities alleged in the book.

“I have been shocked by recent media reports regarding allegations in the book. I was not aware of any such allegations while I served in the cabinet. Had I known, I would certainly have insisted on a thorough investigation and criminal prosecution if it transpired that there was any basis to the allegations.”

However, he said the reports, thus far, were allegations that must still be properly investigated.

“I would urge the authorities to investigate thoroughly and speedily these allegations and to take whatever action might be required in terms of the law.”

He rejected charges that such “aberrations, if they did occur”, had been condoned by or reflected on National Party cabinets.

“My colleagues were decent people wrestling with the existential historic challenges of the time. The alleged behaviour would have been as repugnant to them as it is to me,” he said.

Co-author and former policeman Mark Minnie was found dead on a small holding outside Port Elizabeth this week. Police said his body had been found by a friend “lying near a bush with a gunshot wound to his head. A firearm was found lying next to him”.

Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidoo said yesterday there was no new information on the inquest and the police had opened a case against the owner of the firearm, identified as Minnie’s friend. However, he has yet to be arrested.

Minnie’s death a week after the book he co-authored with investigative journalist Chris Steyn was published shocked the country.

The book details chilling accounts of alleged sexual abuse of coloured teens by a ring including late ex-SADF head Magnus Malan, late businessman Dave Allen and late environmental affairs minister John Wiley.

I was never the supporter of the previous government...from an early age I saw the unfairness and wrongs but yes indeed evil but this is replaced by evil by perhaps in reverse by more evil...in fact far more than most people realise and I see the deception, the lies, the manipulation of terms, meanings, the distortion of facts, the red-herrings, bunny trails that new governments, especially socialisitic and African ones smear and bad name against their predecessors ...it's exactly how it happened in Tsarist Russia...the Bolsheviks, Castro, Che Guevarra and Cuba and many other countries...George Orwells satire Animal Farm is very apt.All mistakes are blamed by skew and some partly true mixed information...a poisoner only mixes a little arsenic with a tasty meal...cannot poison with neat arsenic alone. This country, corrupt and evil in government in virtually every form tries to push the blame on the previous "regime"...so did all the others.

Especially when Christianity is mentioned.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

William Shakespeare

So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

The trouble with the way people assume or place judgement is in association.

But not only that in ignorance. The problem with the human heart is that it is stained with sin, whilst possessing good qualities in appearances in deeds, is too deep to fully understand and fathom.

That's why I personally believe in God, not because of religion but by honesty and common sense...we accuse and feed our beliefs by things we read, trust and mainly because we never really think and challenge but the truth is dormant deep within ourselves which often difficult to understand if we follow the evil intention of man and not the good plan and loving kindness of a God that created us and loves us whilst we still ignore him.

I cannot have the audacity to accuse any man by what might be the schemes of an evil heart a bit of which we all have but actions can be an indicator but then again even the adversary, the Devil can appear as an angel of light.

There is a huge difference between judgement and discernment but true believers must not judge others in the selfish context but discern those things that the written word refers to evil and that comes from honesty in the heart and faith from what is clearly written...there is no compromise with darkness and a regenerated, saved soul must heed this.

Geez Chabal you do carry on and go way off. It's simple mate, there needs to be a full scale enquiry, get to the bottom of it all and establish the truth. Too many have died under suspicious circumstances to suggest that there is an element of truth in the allegations. If there is then the stench of hypocrisy will scratch across the history of the Apartheid regime.