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There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner ... and that is the Afrikaner himself.
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Speaking to the House of Assembly on April 26, 1984. Excerpt from a quote by Andrew Donaldson, Sunday Times, November 5, 2006.

 

Pieter Willem Botha

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