Krokodil Releases DVD

// March 19th, 2006 // General // 1,728 views

News portals are ablaze at the news that former president Nelson Mandela at one stage asked former apartheid president PW Botha to re-enter politics and resume the leadership of the National Party.

This came to the fore, during the launch of Krokodil’s DVD, featuring a two hour interview with former SABC journalist Cliff Saunders. The interviews in both Afrikaans and Englishe were apparently made for TV , but have been rejected for broadcast by SABC, eTV and MNet. So if you intend on seeing the interviews, you’d probably need to get hold of the DVD at R130 a shot.

Sunday Times also reports that Botha made fun of media reports that he was senile: “Sometimes people think I am but I know of other people who are not compos mentis in South Africa. And I will not discuss them.”

This quite aptly reminds me of a skitt (on the Dimensie DVD) by South African comedian, Casper de Vries, in which he joked about the National Party and PW Botha in particular. This particular performance used the song “Ek wil jou nooit weer sien” (loosely translated to “I don’t want to see you ever again”), in reference to PW Botha and his apartheid policies.

Detailed reports over at News 24, Mail & Guardian, IOL and The Age and an interesting earlier view from Chris Roper (News24 Columnist and blogger)

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