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Never in the history of this country have so few people done so much for so many without acknowledgement by the international community.

— P. W. Botha

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I am tired of constantly hearing how guilty the Afrikaner and the National Party are and the time has come that this myth be crushed.

I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.

I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of “Apartheid!” I’ve said many times that the word “Apartheid” means good neighbourliness.

The Cubans are not in Africa out of love.

Where in the whole wide world today can you find a more just society than South Africa has?

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