“Just as we preach a "black peril" so they will begin to speak of a "white peril" and of the hostility the white men have toward them.”

—  Jan Smuts

In June 1947, addressing the head committee of the United Party in Transvaal, cited by Tom MacDonald (1948) in Jan Hofmeyr: Heir to Smuts, p. 219

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