Boetman en die swanesang van die verligtes - Chris Louw

ouw was known for his controversial open letter to the late Willem de Klerk entitled, Boetman is die bliksem in .This was followed by a book, Boetman en die swanesang van die verligtes . It became known as the Boetman debate.The letter to De Klerk, a National Party opinion-maker and brother of former president FW de Klerk, accused the older generation of Afrikaner leaders of political cowardice and deceit by sending the younger generation to war to defend apartheid. Louw was also part of a group of South Africans who held meetings with the then-banned African National Congress in Senegal in 1987. Boetman en die swanesang van die verligtes - Chris Louw. Human & Rousseau 2001. ISBN 9780798141451