CURRENTLY, there is an interesting debate in the letter pages of our daily newspapers as to whether Burnham should receive the prestigious OR Tambo award.

However, what all those who wrote on the subject have deliberately omitted or have forgotten is that while Burnham took an anti-apartheid stance, at the same time he hired the apartheid South African company Philip Bros. to ship our bauxite abroad.
This obviously raises the question of whether he was genuine and sincere about his anti-apartheid stance or whether he was simply going with the flow at the time, which is a notable characteristic of him.
At one time he was staunchly ant-communist/anti-socialist and at another time he was a Marxist, Christian and a co-operative socialist at the same time.
Such was the man.