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Speculation

Pienaar was a soldier, not a politician. The unreferenced and speculative comment that "Some had thought of Pienaar as a potential successor to Prime Minister Jan Smuts—a victorious Afrikaner general who could have held back the reactionary forces of Afrikaner nationalism, as Smuts had done for almost half a century. Pienaar's death was thus a very significant loss to South Africa. Had he lived, the country might perhaps have been spared the long agony of the apartheid years" is totally unencyclopaedic, and should be deleted. There is nothing in the article which supports any such speculation.Royalcourtier (talk) 23:49, 7 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Discontinuity

From the description of Pienaar's activity (or lack thereof) in Operation Crusader, the next paragraph (sentence) jumps to the fall of Tobruk, with no clue as to how or whether Pienaar was involved in that. As best I can tell, neither he nor 1st Inf. Brigade was. So clarify the comment or remove it. It would be nice to know, though, what he did between Crusader and his death. Dmforcier (talk) 06:33, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]