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Legendary South African Journalist Allister Sparks on Wiretapping
and Torture, Under Apartheid and Bush
Legendary South African Journalist Allister Sparks
on Wiretapping and Torture, Under Apartheid and Bush
We spend the hour with legendary South African editor and
reporter Allister Sparks. Sparks gained fame as editor of
South Africa's Rand Daily Mail in the late 1970s where he
helped bring down a South African Prime Minister in a government
propaganda scandal. He also helped expose the death of anti-apartheid
activist Steve Biko at the hands of South Africa's security
forces. In 1995, South African president Nelson Mandela appointed
Sparks to the Board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
Sparks discusses wiretapping and torture, under apartheid
last century and under the Bush administration today. He also
discusses indicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and
his ties to the apartheid regime.
Today we spend the hour with legendary South African editor
and reporter, Allister Sparks on wiretapping and torture.
He knew it well in apartheid South Africa. He talks about
what it means for the U.S. today. And what does Jack Abramoff
have to do with South Africa? In the 1980s, he was head of
the pro-apartheid International Freedom Foundation in Washington.
His counterpart in South Africa: Craig Williamson. Sparks
sat on the Truth and Reconciliation hearings next to the man
who lost his wife and daughter to a letter bomb that Williamson
was involved in sending.
Allister Sparks gained fame as editor of South Africa's Rand
Daily Mail in the late 1970s where he helped bring down a
South African Prime Minister in a government propaganda scandal.
He also helped expose the death of anti-apartheid activist
Steve Biko at the hands of South Africa's security forces.
In 1995, South African president Nelson Mandela appointed
Sparks to the Board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
Sparks also founded the Institute for the Advancement of
Journalism which has trained over 13,000 journalists from
the African continent. He has written three books on South
Africa, "The Mind of South Africa," "Tomorrow
is Another Country," and "Beyond the Miracle."
I had a chance to sit down with Allister Sparks earlier this
month in Doha, Qatar for an extended interview.
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