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Muldergate

Muldergate proper noun: a South African political scandal of the 1970s, in which Prime Minister B. J. Vorster, Dr. Connie Mulder (Minister of Information) and Dr. Eschel Rhoodie (Secretary of Department of Information) were implicated in plans to use government resources to fight a propaganda war for its then Apartheid Government.

Proper noun

Muldergate

  1. A South African political scandal of the 1970s, in which Prime Minister B. J. Vorster, Dr. Connie Mulder (Minister of Information) and Dr. Eschel Rhoodie (Secretary of Department of Information) were implicated in plans to use government resources to fight a propaganda war for its then Apartheid Government.

Origin of Muldergate

From Mulder + -gate.

Questions about Muldergate

What does Muldergate mean?
Muldergate means a South African political scandal of the 1970s, in which Prime Minister B. J. Vorster, Dr. Connie Mulder (Minister of Information) and Dr. Eschel Rhoodie (Secretary of Department of Information) were implicated in plans to use government resources to fight a propaganda war for its then Apartheid Government.
What part of speech is Muldergate?
Muldergate is a proper noun.

Words near Muldergate in the dictionary

  1. mulcts
  2. mulctuary
  3. Mulder
  4. Mulder and Scully
  5. Mulderangst
  6. Muldergate
  7. Mulders
  8. Mulders and Scullys
  9. Muldertorture
  10. Muldoon
  11. Muldoonian

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