... interviewer: “Those days you had to accept what they said as there was no other way you could go because it was the law of the land.” It was only after the demise of apartheid in 1994 that Mr. Naki’s contributions became known. In 2002, President Thabo Mbeki gave him the country’s highest order for his years of public service. Mr. Naki said he hoped to set an example to young people to benefit from opportunities in the new multiracial South Africa that he was denied. “I would like it a lot if the ...
