“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.”

—  Pik Botha

at the signing of the peace protocol in Brazzaville in 1988
Quoted in Shaun Johnson, Strange Days Indeed (1993), p. 39

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