DURING the apartheid era, Piet Koorn- hof served as a Cabinet Minister under Prime Minister PW Botha and President FW de Klerk. Koornhof held various ministerial positions, including Minister of Co-operation and Development (1979-1984) and Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs (1984-1989). He soon became known by the nickname Piet Promises. It was Koorn-hof who declared to an audience in Washington in 1979, as PW Botha was settling into power, that” apartheid as you know it is dead”.
Promises
The current political parties have a host of promises. In February 2024, EFF leader Julius Malema said: “This is not a manifesto of promises; it’s a manifesto of commitments.”
He announced the party’s slogan for the coming elections as “Jobs and land
