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

—  P. W. Botha

As Minister of Defence, East London NP Congress, 6 May 1976, as cited in PW Botha in his own words, Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 16

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