South Africa

I just watched excerpts of the interview with PW Botha and all I can say is that if you ever want to see denialism and historical revisionism at its finest then you should definitely watch this. Those who are easily nauseated by blatant hypocrisy or outright lying should avoid at all costs. A few of the choice quotes (News24) :

 

On why he never thought blacks were inferior : "Because many blacks, I repeat, many blacks and coloured people co-operated positively with government policy."

On how apartheid was not of his or the NP's making : "[Apartheid] did not originate with us...It's a very old policy and we didn't ask for it."

(This particular quote was said with a perfectly straight face and I was surprised irony didn't walk in the door and hit him in the face with a cricket bat) : "[The] disastrous policy of affirmative action destroys people's chances of providing a service to the country..."

 

I don't care if "he's still sharp as a razor" as some of the pundit class have called him. He still remains as before a windbag who has an inflated ego and a logical process so flawed that it would make a Standard 5 teacher despair.  

 

PW you'll always be the biggest clown in SA in my book!