Niren Tolsi | Mail & Guardian Originally published in The Continent- Issue 124 During the last years of apartheid, Willem “Ters” Ehlers could feel the political tides turning. His boss, president PW Botha — who had vehemently defied all calls for reform — was under pressure. Botha’s days of leading his party, and the country,…
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