Your article created the impression I attended Vicki Momberg’s court appearance "to support her" (Vicki Momberg back in court for appeal — supported by Dan Roodt, April 4). The so-called quotation attributed to me was in response to a sarcastic rhetorical question put to me. I merely replied that I am "a different kind of heretic" to Momberg. I read Nietzsche and the Marquis de Sade, and fraternised with Czech and Russian dissidents in Paris in the 1980s, so I disdain the maudlin glorification of "man" and communism. Gathering one’s own information is always preferable to getting it in the mainstream media. Slapping a three-year prison sentence on someone for pronouncing an offensive word smacks of the former USSR. I have been inundated with messages from South Africans whose relatives were murdered, with many of the murderers only receiving three-year sentences. Momberg has a fictional predecessor in the form of Alrina Smal in Gustav Venter’s novel Die Amigdala van Alrina Smal. Aft...
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