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...conviction opens the way for prosecution of crusading Johannesburg Editor Laurence Gandar, who for years has been one of Verwoerd's most nettlesome critics. Gandar ordered his Rand Daily Mail to publish Strachan's story after a thorough check convinced him that it was true. Obviously, he should have known better...
Johannesburg's crusading editor, Laurence Gandar, 50, of the Rand Daily Mail, had been looking forward to a visit to Britain, on an invitation mailed him just the week before by an admiring British newspaper group. Then, suddenly, two of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's detectives changed his plans by calling at his home and relieving him of his passport - indefinitely. Joked Gandar: "For a moment, it struck me that somebody here might have been reading my mail. But I dismissed so unworthy a thought...
Matter of Perjury? After Strachan's story appeared, Gandar ran a second article on prison tortures, witnessed by two warders and two ex-prisoners. Since then both prisoners have been rearrested, and one of the warders put under house arrest. The other, Gysbert Van Schalkwyk, 22, was given a three-year jail sentence fortnight ago, after pleading guilty to perjury, and explaining, in a statement read to the court by the state prosecutor, that he had lied when he said he had seen electric torture applied 15 to 20 times...
...Gandar himself was not permitted to take the stand. He may get the chance sometime, for the government may well be building a case against the Mail itself under the Prisons Act. In the past two months, the newspaper's office has been raided four times, and security police have seized all documents and photographs of prisons or prisoners. They have also visited sources whose names had only been discussed by Gandar on the telephone, leading him to suspect that his line is being tapped. Though the Mail has been campaigning for nothing more radical than a judicial enquiry...
...Laurence Gandar, editor of the Rand Daily Mail [July 23], is the most courageous man in South Africa. His enemies feel that he does South Africa harm. How wrong they are! He fights for the rights of all: white, black, Afrikaner and Englishman. He is the only bright ray of hope coming through the dark cloud that hangs over our country...