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'''Petrus Johannes "Piet" Cillié''' (18 January 1917 – 20 October 1999) was a [[South Africa]]n [[journalist]] and the [[Editor-in-chief|editor]] of ''[[Die Burger]]'' from 1954 to 1977.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stellenboschwriters.com/cilliepiet.html|title=P. J. Cillié|last=Breuer|first=Rosemarie|website=www.stellenboschwriters.com|access-date=2016-07-18}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The Afrikaners: Biography of a People|last=Giliomee|first=Hermann|publisher=Hurst|year=2011|isbn=|location=|pages=|via=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/piet-cilli%C3%A9-82-former-editor-die-burger-dies-cape-town|title=This Day in History: 20 October 1999|last=|first=|date=|website=SA History Online|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref> He was strongly supportive of the [[National Party (South Africa)|National Party]] government and has been described as with "most influential thinker", alongside [[Hendrik Verwoerd]], in the [[Afrikaner nationalist]] movement in the early decades of [[apartheid]].<ref name=":0" />
'''Petrus Johannes "Piet" Cillié''' (18 January 1917 – 20 October 1999) was a [[South Africa]]n [[journalist]] and the [[Editor-in-chief|editor]] of ''[[Die Burger]]'' from 1954 to 1977.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.stellenboschwriters.com/cilliepiet.html|title=P. J. Cillié|last=Breuer|first=Rosemarie|website=www.stellenboschwriters.com|access-date=2016-07-18}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The Afrikaners: Biography of a People|last=Giliomee|first=Hermann|publisher=Hurst|year=2011|isbn=|location=|pages=|via=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/piet-cilli%C3%A9-82-former-editor-die-burger-dies-cape-town|title=This Day in History: 20 October 1999|last=|first=|date=|website=SA History Online|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref> He was strongly supportive of the [[National Party (South Africa)|National Party]] government and has been described as with "most influential thinker", alongside [[Hendrik Verwoerd]], in the [[Afrikaner nationalist]] movement in the early decades of [[apartheid]].<ref name=":0" /> For many years, Cillié wrote a popular weekly political column for Die Burger under the pseudonym "Dawie."<ref name=":1" /> The first of these columns appeared on 28 January 1946.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Louw|first=Louis|title=Dawie, 1946-1964: 'n Bloemlesing uit die geskrifte van Die Burger se politieke kommentator saamgestel deur Louis Louw|publisher=Tafelberg|year=1965|isbn=|location=Cape Town|pages=3}}</ref>


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Petrus Johannes "Piet" Cillié (18 January 1917 – 20 October 1999) was a South African journalist and the editor of Die Burger from 1954 to 1977.[1][2][3] He was strongly supportive of the National Party government and has been described as with "most influential thinker", alongside Hendrik Verwoerd, in the Afrikaner nationalist movement in the early decades of apartheid.[2] For many years, Cillié wrote a popular weekly political column for Die Burger under the pseudonym "Dawie."[1] The first of these columns appeared on 28 January 1946.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Breuer, Rosemarie. "P. J. Cillié". www.stellenboschwriters.com. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  2. ^ a b Giliomee, Hermann (2011). The Afrikaners: Biography of a People. Hurst.
  3. ^ "This Day in History: 20 October 1999". SA History Online.
  4. ^ Louw, Louis (1965). Dawie, 1946-1964: 'n Bloemlesing uit die geskrifte van Die Burger se politieke kommentator saamgestel deur Louis Louw. Cape Town: Tafelberg. p. 3.