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Knowing me, Knowing you – Cehill Pienaar – Part 2

by Whaleoil on February 20, 2011

The tipline has run hot. There is much coming out of South Africa about Cehill Pienar, the electorate chair of Rodney who has tried rather ineptly to stitch up a selection for Brent Robinson. there is so much that I think I will just drip feed it out this week.

Here is a couple of starters for those who think he is just a mild old saffa living life peacefully in New Zealand.

First up is a speech he gave to Orewa Rotary back in 2008. I’m told he fondly reminisced about the good old days of apartheid. In that document the full speech notes are available on request. If I was a reporter I would be asking for that.

Then there is this little gem from South Africa about Cehill Pienaar.

Well I only have at this moment to go on what their leaders say. And in the declaration of Mr Cehill Pienaar, the Leader of the Conservative Party in the Orange Free State, last night after the congress was closed, the Free State Congress of the Conservative Party, they are now saying that if we don’t get an election the only option open to us will be violence.

That is from an interview with Kobies Gouws in 1991. They are talking about the troubles in Ventersdorp between the AWB and South African security forces. The AWB of course was famously lead by white racist Eugene Terreblanche. Cehill Pienaar was a leader in the Conservative Party and the only sensible comparison you can make is that they were like Sinn Fein and Gerry Adams is like Cehill Pienaar, the AWB, along with their proxy thugs in the government like the CCB were the armed wing. They worked hand in hand, and ultimately before coming to New Zealand Cehill Pienaar joined forces by becoming a senator within the IFP.

Of course Cehill Pienaar likes to say he is a reformed racist because he was once a senator for the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). He goes out of his way to say this to anyone who asks, including candidates seeking his vote in selections. He even tells reporters that he has no knowledge of the far right. He is a liar. Anyone with even a basis kind of knowledge of the IFP knows that they were toadies to the backers of apartheid. Not only that they worked hand in hand with both the CCB and the AWB to terrorise their opponents to achieve the their goal of a Zulu homeland. The far right of South Africa was determined to form a White homeland and supporting the IFP was a tool try to achieve that.

There is plenty more to come on this man, but it galls me as a kiwi that people like him are hiding here in New Zealand and attempting to pervert our democratic processes here. By helping, orchestrating and enabling the branch stacking of Brent Robinson he has brought his despicable politics to the fore in New Zealand.

The funny thing is that they thought they could get away with it. Thankfully we have technology and good honest people in Rodney ratting out the dirty, underhand tactics. Just a few years ago they might have succeeded.

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  • whalewatcher

    Shades of old Nazis hiding away in sleepy countries.
    We don’t need his kind meddling in local politics. Hopefully this ‘outing’ will sink him

  • Mr. Infinity

    National has to liquidate all ties to this guy. I don’t care if he and his supporters have 100% reformed, and are now the greatest guys on earth, their past associations stink like pig shit. It’ll stick to National, stick to Key, and worst of all…help Labour.

  • http://www.blairmulholland.co.nz BlairM

    The Conservatives and the AWB were separate political parties, so a better analogy would be the SDP and Sinn Fein. So your depiction of the Conservatives as the political wing of the militias is a distortion of the actual situation at the time and not a fair statement. Some individuals in the party were of course involved in violence, but you can’t tar everyone in the party with that. I’d say the same about the IFP.

    It seems to me that all Cehill is guilty of in his Rotary speech is stating the facts. If you were white in South Africa before the 1990s, you were part of the wealthiest ethnic group on earth and apartheid was pretty freaking awesome. It is an absolute truth that the situation has disintegrated since proper democracy was instituted. None of that makes apartheid right, but saying things have gone downhill is correct, especially if you are talking about security and law and order.

    It also seems to me to be a basic statement of facts that if you don’t have an election, violence is the only option. That’s a pretty universal truth in any situation.

    I await the rest of your “dirt” with interest.

  • grantmichaelmckenna

    The AWB were not a political party, but a paramilitary organisation; the linkage between them and the Conservative Party was well established, but was never formalised- it was more a matter of their having a common membership.
    The IFP were always a Zulu party- their interest to white supremacists lay in their nationalism, which was seen as an ally to Afrikaner nationalism. They weren’t apartheid stooges- they were allies of the apartheid state because their interests coincided to an extent. Citing membership of the IFP as evidence of non-racism without contextualising the support is, to one who grew up in South Africa, amusing in the extreme given the racism of the IFP.
    The anti-apartheid Progressive Federal Party, which was the principal founding member of the Democratic Alliance, polled around 15% of the white vote. I was a young Prog [joined at 14] and supported them all my life there. Far more ex-South Africans in NZ were PFP supporters than simply 15%- for the most part Australia is a more comfortable fit for those who pine for apartheid, especially Queensland.