Pieter Willem Botha quotes - page 2

It's a psychological onslaught, an economic one, a diplomatic one, a military onslaught – a total onslaught. (Pieter Willem Botha)
It should be noted that refugees are crossing the border from southern Angola to South-West Africa – not the other way round. There is no aggression from our side. View quote
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I feel more welcome among the black communities than I do among Coloureds. View quote
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We do not know what tomorrow will bring. We are not prophets. This is a step in the dark. We can only proceed into the future with faith. View quote
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There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner ... and that is the Afrikaner himself. View quote
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I believe we are today crossing the Rubicon, Mr Chairman. In South Africa there can be no turning back. I have a manifesto for the future of our country and we must engage in positive action in the months and years that lie ahead. View quote
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We are a strong country in a rather sick world. ... Our problems are not so much racial as radicals wish to make them. View quote
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Unfortunately [South Africa] has been badly repaid for her loyalty because the West has expelled her from the family circle while befriending the most dictatorial regimes on Earth. View quote
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No more mine-laying. No more murder. No more abduction of women and children. No more attacks on headmen. No more raids across the border. So long as these conditions do not exist there will be no withdrawal [from South-West Africa] of South African troops. View quote
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With the with­drawal of Britain east of the Suez and the consequent vacuum caused in the Middle East, and the stocking of arsenals in some African states by Russia and China, the dangers threatening South Africa today are greater than ever before. View quote
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The Cubans are not in Africa out of love. (Pieter Willem Botha)
Many refugees – white, brown and black – flee to South Africa. Why? Here they know they have safety. View quote
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Where in the whole wide world today can you find a more just society than South Africa has? View quote
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There is not an Indian community in the world that is better off than the Indians in South Africa. That is the type of apartheid that I stand for. That is the type of apartheid that is not dead. View quote
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I hate no black man. I hate no brown man. The same God that made me put them there too. My God is not only for Afrikaners. View quote
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Mandela has overstepped the mark. He has broken the law. The judiciary of this country has put him where he belongs according to the rules of democracy. View quote
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I have come to the realisation and conviction that the struggle in South Africa is not between White, Black and Brown, but between Christian civilized standards and the powers of chaos. View quote
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We dare not see ourselves as a chosen people. We are called people - called to a particular task, just as every nation is a called people. View quote
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The Republic of South Africa has a new formula under the National Party's leadership: black nations can get freedom without firing shots or revolution. View quote
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We do not force people to move to new homes, we coerce them. [Some believe he meant to say "convince"]. View quote
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The separation of races happened long before the Nationalist Government. God separated the races. (Pieter Willem Botha)
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. View quote
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Lord Milner had, in the forced Peace of Vereeniging ensured that there was to be no franchise for black people after the introduction of self-government – which was never intended. It was only after half a century that an Afrikaner government started doing something about black rights. View quote
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Knowing [Mandela] will start up with violence again, I, as a responsible head of state, must release him so that he can carry on with his violence, and then arrest him? What a nonsensical argument. View quote
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Our enemies latched unto the word "apartheid" and in a very sly manner transformed it into the strongest weapon in the onslaught against freedom and civilization in our country. View quote
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