Cliff Saunders lacks credibility as an opinion-maker: iLIVE

I am offended to see the words of apartheid propaganda chief Cliff Saunders posing as credible opinion in the Times iLive.

Why?

Is it the insouciant and vulgar way in which Saunders now seeks to whitewash his years spent formulating falsehood and outright mendacity during successive states of emergency?

Or is it the sheer chutzpah of thinking that anyone with a career as an apartheid apologist can claim to have the best interests of the country at heart?

Saunders dares to upbraid one of South Africa's greatest legal minds, taking Judge Dennis Davis to task for correctly deciding in favour of the separation of powers in a complex debate involving, the power of the judiciary vs. the power of parliament.

This unwarranted criticism appears to grant Saunders fuel in his general criticism of Davis for being eccentric in his populism, "as evidenced by his television programme, Judge For Yourself."

Saunders puffery in attacking Davis's impartiality, both as a judge and as a mediator of a popular television programme, only serves to remind us of the steadfast refusal of our government and the current administration to adopt the recommendations of the Truth Commission.

Volume 4 of the report singled Saunders out as one of the better known horrors of the apartheid regime. Yet aside from the recent Wouter Basson show trial, there have been no prosecutions of these perpetrators of crimes against humanity to date.

One would have expected criminals of Saunders stature to be firmly under lock and key by now, or at least in exile where they are unable to corrupt or influence our nation's youth.