Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid. Yannick Noah
I didn’t actually realise what apartheid meant. I’m probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses. John Deacon
8Foreign investors in big pull-out from South Africa. The Times headline Monday 26th August 1985
Apartheid was an insult. It was intolerable and unacceptable ... A manifestation of the class struggle and class exploitation but in the extreme. Vladimir Shemiatenkov, Soviet government
Gandhi’s politics in South Africa – particularly a racial hatred of black people – calling them kafirs. G B Singhe, author Gandhi Behind the Mask of Divinity
Apartheid is as evil, as immoral, as un-Christian in my view as Nazism. And in my view the Reagan administration’s support and collaboration with it is equally immoral, evil and totally un-Christian without remainder. Bishop Desmond Tutu
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. Bishop Desmond Tutu
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. Desmond Tutu
I think it’s fear basically. They’re frightened, just as the old government was frightened, to upset white farmers. This new government is almost as frightened, and I don’t know why. There are less than 60,000 white farmers, that’s all, that owns all this land. Cosmas Desmond, author The Discarded People
We the people of South Africa declare that our country belongs to everyone. And that all the people shall share in the wealth. The land shall be shared among those who work it. There shall be houses, security and the right to work. Freedom Charter of African National Congress
This is the Cape Province. I am claiming and I am demanding those two republics ... You can have Johannesburg ... two republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State. Eugene Terreblanche, ANP leader
I’m waiting for Eugene Terreblanche, leader of the AWB, the white supremacist party in South Africa which is preparing itself for war against the blacks. Nick Broomfield, The Leader, the Driver & the Driver’s Wife 1991
‘What can Mandela offer us? Winnie’s wig for De clerk’s bald head.’ ibid. Eugene at rally
‘I wasn’t arrested for nothing.’ ibid. driver
‘The best human being in the world.’ ibid. driver
‘We like the atmosphere here.’ ibid. driver’s wife at AWB military training camp
‘In a sense I like him but he’s also very dominant. If he tells you to get up, you must get up. And sometimes I’m stubborn.’ ibid. driver’s wife
‘Our government is calling in our weapons. Should we hand them in?’ ibid. AWB supporter to Terre’Blanche
‘If the black’s getting in the swimming pool, the whites are getting out.’ ibid. driver
‘They talk about one and a half million has got AIDS.’ ibid. AWB supporter re black people
‘We don’t want to mix because AIDS will kill all the blacks.’ ibid. driver
‘I’m a bloody racist.’ ibid. driver
‘The point is you were late … I will never accept that.’ ibid. Terre’Blanche
‘If he [Mandela] wants war, we will give him war.’ Nick Broomfield, His Big White Self, Channel 4 2006, Terre’Blanche
AVB caused death and destruction and largely got away with it. ibid.
‘I feel the climate to be right for human life to be taken.’ ibid. driver
‘I was promised a revolution.’ ibid.
In 1993 the AWB leader stormed the World Trade Centre in Johannesburg. ibid.
White South Africa just got on with enjoying Apartheid. ibid.
With the use of IBM computers, the Apartheid regime’s classification actually became a reality. ibid.
Prohibitive weapons were smuggled through Israel even during Sanctions. ibid.
AWV members harassed people at several voting stations. ibid.
The leader was also drinking heavily … Paul was left in a coma and remains paralysed down one side. ibid.
His numerous acts of bombing and terrorism were also taken into account. ibid.
I had heard about a sub-culture of separatists intensively opposed to the new regime and determined to build its own communities for whites only. Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends s3e3, BBC 2000
For the first time in my life I was second billing to a Nazi. ibid.
Before I left, Britz wanted to show me the site of a British concentration camp. ibid.
There’s something rather sad about how out of touch he was with the country around him. ibid.
Since the making of this film, Eugene Terre’Blanche has been sentenced to six years in prison for the attempted murder of a black employee. ibid.
Johannesburg: In this city of widespread poverty and unemployment residents have found themselves besieged by crime. Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Johannesburg, BBC 2008
I’d been surprised by the brutality of the private police. ibid.
The community has opted to take matters into its own hands by hunting down and burning those they suspect of wrongdoing. ibid.
The British government were supporting South Africa in the United Nations voting against the resolution that condemned her policies of Apartheid. The hypocrisy of Mr Macmillan makes shudders go up my spine. Barbara Castle
We stand here for the millions of men and women in South Africa born and forced to live all their lives in the concentration camp of Colour. And we say that their will to be freed is our will; their struggle our struggle. Barbara Castle
Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can’t do anything about that. Miriam Makeba
And if the white man thought that Asians were a low, filthy nation, Asians could still smile with relief – at least, they were not Africans. And if the white man thought that Africans were a low, filthy nation, Africans in southern Africa could still smile – at least, they were not busmen. They all have their monsters. Bessie Head, South African writer
South Africa has spent sixty-five million Rand – that’s nearly forty million pounds – on a hundred and seventy secret projects all over the world designed to further their interests and neutralise their opponents. BBC Tonight Special, March 1979
London, England 24 June 1986: Britain has done an about-turn on its policy on South Africa. It’s offered to meet Oliver Tambo the leader of the African National Congress. BBC News
New Zealand v South Africa: ... A Boer heart beats here, not in fear, but in rage. Five to six hundred people are denying the rights of twenty-eight thousand. South African TV
Yes, apartheid based on race is outlawed now. But the system always went far deeper than that. The cruelty and injustice were underwritten by an economic apartheid which regarded people as no more than cheap expendable labour. It was backed by great business corporations in South Africa, Britain, the rest of Europe and the United States. And it was this apartheid based on money and profit that allowed a small minority to control most of the land, most of the industrial wealth and most of the economic power. Today the same system is called, without a trace of irony, the free market. John Pilger, Apartheid Did Not Die, ITV 1998
For the killers, torturers and collaborators, all they had to do was take part in a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. A kind of public confessional in which they didn’t have to say sorry, and there was no justice. And people got away, literally, with murder. ibid.