Reporting by: Caryn Dolley
Edited by: Malibongwe Tyilo
Filmed by: Bernard Kotze
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Watch – How Mangosuthu Buthelezi's US visits were used by Stratcom to misinform
When South Africa’s apartheid government disinformation agents set their sights on the United States to spread anti-ANC propaganda, they had a plan. To get their message right into the White House. Daily Maverick's Caryn Dolley explains.
South Africa, Australia and New Zealand rugby teams in a mine at Gold Reef City in Johannesburg, South Africa. In attendance were President FW de Klerk and Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi. Pictured are Schutte Bekker (L), FW de Klek, Buthelezi, Nick Farr-Jones, Johannesburg, 1992. (Photo by Wessel Oosthuizen/Gallo Images