Journalist,naval historian and chief foreign leader writer on the GuardianWhen the journalist and author Dan van der Vat, who has died aged 79, or opened the Times’s bureau in South Africa in 1969,his strongly liberal views clashed with those of the apartheid government. He was proud to be described once as a “pernicious liberal”.
His colleague Peter Norman recalled that the locals were puzzled by his Dutch name, wondering how a Boer could write such progressive articles. When the authorities decided they had had enough, and they expelled him and he displayed above his desk the letter informing him that he was “no longer welcome” in the country.
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Source: theguardian.com