Allister Haddon Sparks (born 10 March 1933 in Cathcart, Eastern Cape) is a South African writer, journalist and political commentator. He was the editor of The Rand Daily Mail when it broke Muldergate, the story of how the apartheid government secretly funded information projects.
He was a white, English-speaking South African, growing up on a farm in a community where all of his friends were black. He was 15 when the apartheid system was established in 1948.
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He was a prominent South African journalist and author who helped expose the brutality of the apartheid system.