REPLY BY CITY PRESS TO COMPLAINT TO THE PRESS OMBUDSMAN BY LARA JOHNSTONE
1. Ms Johnstone says that it is incorrect to refer to a group or religion she calls Radical Honesty, of whom she is the only member in South Africa, as “rightwing” and to say of her attempted intervention at the trial of the so-called “Reitz Four” as an attempt to “scupper” the trial.
2. In her application to intervene as amicus curiae in the Reitz trial Ms Johnstone:
a. Says that “the Liberation Struggle could not have been considered a ‘just war’ … when Apartheid had raised poor black living standards to the highest in Africa”;
b. says that “Apartheid was not a crime Against Humanity”, but a just war for Afrikaner Demographic Survival”;
c. endorses the concept of “white refugees” in South Africa;
d. renounces the Truth and Reconciliation Commission;
e. advocates “cultural groups” and “cultural laws”;
f. sought admission as amicus in the Reitz matter on the basis that she was admitted as an amicus in an unrelated and undecided Constitutional Court case, which “may have affected” the court’s decision-making in the Reitz matter; and
g. made it clear that she regarded the Reitz accused to be victims rather than wrongdoers.