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Today, 38 years ago, Connie Mulder resigned as Minister─── 12:14 Tue, 24 Jan 2017
Former South African Minister of Information, Connie Mulder, resigned at the insistence of the Prime Minister, P.W. Botha,as a result of his involvement in the Information Scandal.
Muldergate, as the scandal was also named, involved Mulder, with the knowledge of then Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster, in a plot to sell apartheid propaganda with the use of state resources.
In 1973 Vorster had agreed to shift R64 million from the state in order to execute this plan.
Plans included bribes of international news agencies and the purchase of the Washington Star newspaper.
These funds were also used to establish an English newspaper, The Citizen, which included pro-apartheid content.
A commission of inquiry concluded that Vorster knew everything about the corruption and had tolerated it. He resigned from the presidency.
South African History Online
Compiled by Moeketsi Mogotsi/OFM News
