Some of the pics are rather interesting:
Pic 2: PW and Pik Botha in London. Thatcher despised them, at a personal level (apparantly). Pik look like he is stil having a hangover (which could be), longing for a cig (chain smoker). He came home one evening, drunk, and beat up his wife so she fell down the stairs an ended up in a wheelchair (!), I have heard
PW was trying to be "colonial charming"
Other pic: PW at the monument: looking bored and very sarcastic. Malan is trying to look like a soldier, Constand Viljoen is a soldier and poor Marais is just sagging.
Now Malan was the minister of defence after PW. Constand was the boy-general who engineered the only parachute jump-very succeessful, btw.
Marais was one of the old-style commandant of a boer commando but at that time heading CSIR and Armscor.
Ivan
Pic 2: PW and Pik Botha in London. Thatcher despised them, at a personal level (apparantly). Pik look like he is stil having a hangover (which could be), longing for a cig (chain smoker). He came home one evening, drunk, and beat up his wife so she fell down the stairs an ended up in a wheelchair (!), I have heard
PW was trying to be "colonial charming"
Other pic: PW at the monument: looking bored and very sarcastic. Malan is trying to look like a soldier, Constand Viljoen is a soldier and poor Marais is just sagging.
Now Malan was the minister of defence after PW. Constand was the boy-general who engineered the only parachute jump-very succeessful, btw.
Marais was one of the old-style commandant of a boer commando but at that time heading CSIR and Armscor.
Ivan