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Radical Middle | 143<br />
Well, would have been. after the rDM article Nasionale had<br />
second thoughts. Later we had a management contract with The<br />
Star. Jolyon Nuttall, now the general manager (title-inflation<br />
had caught up with The Star), made heroic personal efforts but<br />
The Star’s mighty machinery did not easily adjust to an extra<br />
gnat in the works. It didn’t help that monomania stung at the<br />
same time and I snuck behind my new, first, word processor to<br />
write another democracy book.<br />
Frontline’s borderline identity wasn’t the sole reason I found<br />
nothing in my pocket but my fingers, but it helped. eddie Botha<br />
of Rapport was one day on the phone to a government hot-shot<br />
(I know who, but he’s a nice guy, now, and he gets extremely<br />
upset by this story, so I’ll call him D) who said, “Sorry, hold on<br />
a moment, I have to take the other line”. eddie then calmly<br />
listened in while D firmly told someone called Hennie that it<br />
was unwise and unpatriotic to advertise in Frontline.<br />
Hennie Klerk ran Klerk, Marais and Potgieter, agency for<br />
inter alia federale Volksbeleggings, the deliciously improbable<br />
advertiser who Frontline displayed with huge pride, and thanks<br />
to a career-risking exec, anton roodt.<br />
Once at police HQ Lester Venter of the Sunday Times watched<br />
a Special Branch general demonstrate the onslaught against<br />
civilisation by pulling treasonable literature out of a box. The<br />
general whipped out journal after journal and flung them on<br />
the floor in disgust. Sechaba, the aNc mag; Ikwezi, the Pac’s;<br />
African Communist, which used to come in a wrapper marked<br />
“Wild Life”; and on he went. Then he pulled out a Frontline and<br />
flung it down in the same disgust.<br />
Lester said: “Scuse me, isn’t that one a bit different?”<br />
The officer retrieved the copy. This edition happened to<br />
be more than a bit different; its cover asked loudly, “Who’s<br />
Listening to the White Workers?” The general contemplated<br />
it with narrowed eyelids and then, said Lester, flung it again,<br />
saying, “Man, they try to confuse us but we’re too bright.”<br />
after Gencor’s ads stopped, Niel ackermann at their head<br />
office told me he’d found out that I was in the pay of “an eastern
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