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A new era has begun in South Africa. My government is removing racial discrimination. We want to be accepted by our African brothers.

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Quoted in The Daily Maverick newspaper, 2 September 2011

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If we don't stand together, we will never catch up and the industrialised nations won't care. I predict it here today as your brother.

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