Mampara of the Week: Dianne Kohler Barnard
04 October 2015 - 02:00
By revealing her closet admiration for PW Botha, DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard made a spectacular entrance into Mamparadom. The racial scandal she nose-dived into by sharing a Facebook post that contained the words, "Please come back PW Botha - you were far more honest than any of these ANC rogues and provided far better services to the public", is exacerbated by her disingenuous excuse that she didn't read the whole thing before posting it.This mampara, a former SAfm journalist, wants us to believe she found 10 lines too long a read when she deals with mountains of documents during the course of her work. The fact that a friend of hers harbours such sentiments says a lot about the old adage, you are judged by the company you keep...
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