Louis Pienaar (26 June 1926 - 5 November 2012) was a South African lawyer and diplomat. In 1985, the apartheid government put him in charge of Namibia, in the lead-up to that country's independence in 1990. He subsequently became a minister in F W de Klerk's government until 1993.
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“Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand, the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.”
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