P. W. Botha Quotes

Who was I kidding? I'm a farmer, and farmers are natural segregationists. We separate the wheat from the chaff. I'm not Rudolf Hess, P. W. Botha, Capitol Records, or present-day U.S. of A. Those motherfuckers segregate because they want to hold on to power. I'm a farmer: we segregate in an effort to give every tree, every plant, every poor Mexican, every poor nigger, a chance for equal access to sunlight and water; we make sure every living organism has room to breathe.

Deur in die openbaar te praat en te skryf het Brink op sy eie manier aan die stryd deelgeneem; verder het hy ook ’n ope brief aan P.W. Botha in die New York Times gepubliseer waarin hy die Suid-Afrikaanse regering met die Gestapo vergelyk. Só lees sy eerste paragraaf: You have now succeeded in establishing a deadly silence surrounding yourself and your Government. Now no one can report on what you are planning or doing, no one can expose your lies and evils, no one can speak up for those oppressed, hounded, turned out of their burning homes, tortured or killed by the latest incarnations of the Gestapo. Not even the number of those who are disappearing around us daily may be divulged.141