Petrus Johannes "Piet" Cillié (18 January 1917 – 20 October 1999) was a South African
journalist
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and the
editor
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of ''
Die Burger
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'' from 1954 to 1977.
He was strongly supportive of the
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government and has been described as with "most influential thinker", alongside
Hendrik Verwoerd
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, in the
Afrikaner nationalist movement in the early decades of
apartheid
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.
For many years, Cillié wrote a popular weekly political column for Die Burger under the pseudonym "Dawie."
The first of these columns appeared on 28 January 1946.
References
1917 births
1999 deaths
20th-century South African journalists
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