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I must and will work to ensure that the new democratic South Africa has a fair chance to succeed economically as well as politically, and to try to assist in fulfilling at least a part of the dream of the oppressed and deprived when the new South Africa is born.
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Speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C, April 1991.

 

Harry Schwarz

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