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DavidDvorkin

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14. Interestingly, "John Steenhuisen, South Africa's white agricultural minister",

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Jun 4, 2025, 04:59 PM

Jun 2025

who is the leader of the liberal opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, has an Afrikaans surname. He's also from Durban, an urban center.

Interesting to me, anyway.

He's an example of how things have changed in the white population of SA since I left there almost 70 years ago.

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