JEAN DU PLESSIS
I stayed with my father for about two or possibly three years. Then I went to live with my grandmother.  At the time I would spend one weekend with my father and the next with my mother.  At that time my mother became involved with another man.  And that was a fairly liberal home that my mother had.  On the other hand in my father's home, we argued about politics regularly and when I went to my mother I always had to echo my viewpoints.  When I went to my father I didn't necessarily try to convey my mother's viewpoints, but during my arguments, there were points that I couldn't - I put these arguments to my father and then he would offer a solution or an explanation, and he would solve that problem.  In this way this is how my political thinking grew.