The polygraph really doesn't clarify anything. It does not prove that the contents of the book is true or correct; at best it possibly proves that Chris Steyn herself believes it to be true and correct. There's a huge difference between allegations actually being true and the person making them believing it to be true. I myself was a journalist during Steyn's time at The Star and have first-hand experience of her modus operandi as a journalist, which I would rather not discuss here. I would rather put my money on Jacques Pauw's story in Vrye Weekblad which pokes huge holes in Steyn's book. Alec, just as you believe your take on the polygraph story to be correct, you may still be proven wrong. And I am no apologist for the characters in Steyn's book - in fact I intensely disliked Malan and Wiley, whom I both met frequently in the course of my work, and I also intensely dislike any true child molester. But Steyn spared no thought for the immense harm she caused innocent people affected as collateral damage with her book of which her 'facts' were not proven beyond doubt and the allegations of her sources were not cross-checked and corroborated. It seems her only concern was sensationalism and good book sales. Alec, it's sad to see someone of your journalistic calibre falling for a polygraph test that seems to be little more than just another con in a battle to shape public perceptions.

Should Mark Minnie not have been the one to have taken the test?
The test proves that you absolutely believed everything that Minnie told you.

Mark Minnie is dead. What do you think the polygraph test results would have been?

It is common knowledge that paedophilia is rife amongst the leadership of governments and high circles of society and even amongst the clergy of the RKC, so why would her story be untrue?

What do you mean "common knowledge "? I suppose it is "They say". Buffoon!

I mean common knowledge amongst those that is aware of this situation, in other words those that is enlightened.

I believe she's not lying. But I do think somebody else had been lying to her and she was caught in this book to give it some sort of "credibility". Minnie may have had his suicide planned long ago but wanted to go to the "other side with a "legacy".
Why on earth would somebody who wanted to murder a child in such a horrific way take the wounded child to a private hospital for treatment if they could just have disposed of the body in the sea on the island?!

That's right - the questions all indirect so as long someone told her anything and she reported that in her book, she wouldn't be lying. If the questions had been slightly changed to ask, e.g. Were any of the allegations you wrote about those persons in your book Lost Boys of Bird Island fabricated? and Regarding your book Lost Boys of Bird Island were any of the reported allegations about those persons falsified? and so on. Amazing that she exonerates herself based on 4 questions.

And your point is?? Magnus, Minnie, John Wylie and Barend should be the ones taking these tests. Not Steyn. The book she wrote was a fixation of her imagination and therefore not possible to fictitiously lie in it.

Magnus is also dead......and ALL the others, from supposed ''suicide'' - makes you think......

I know very little about this sad story and I know none of the people involved or supposedly.

What I know is that the logic of "The Daily Insider - Chris Steyn, Barry Sergeant - same, same. Believe it." is nonsensical.

And so is a lie detector test by the author.

Sources or people alleged to have committed the crime should be the ones to take a lie detector test (which is not infallible anyway).

If anything all these nonsensical arguments have succeed in making more weary about the allegation and the integrity of those involved. The Daily Insider has not helped.

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The Broeders will always protect their own because they are the most vicious gang in South Africa!
If they don`t come clean as an organisation and really confess (and mean it) their atrocities against their fellow South Africans( white and black !) we cannot expect God Almighty to rescue us from further abuse by other ( gangs) parties.

It was not the Broeders that protected their own but an independent private detective who said he could not prove any allegations against Malan. Her answer to that was an ambiguous retort: He could not disprove it either