“I have been to Switzerland before but not to this [Paul Kruger's] house or to a Swiss bank.”

—  P. W. Botha

On a European tour as Prime Minister, 31 May 1984, as cited in PW Botha in his own words, Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 51

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