Firing Line (1974) - South African Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster

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Firing Line: South African Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster (1974)

"It is said that we are a 'police state'.. if so it's the only 'police state' I know where you have to do your level best to keep people out."

"...the time that the whites moved up from the Cape, the blacks moved down and settled.. we didn't "put them there" and say that is where they must live... they picked that land.."

"One thing we should avoid is to incite one race against another."

"The point of seperate development is to avoid friction."

"There is in fact a white state in South Africa and 8 black states consisting of different peoples with their own language and their own customs.."

"The UN is a comedy."

"..we have this communist threat in this part of the world. We had it in the 40s we had it in the 50s and in the 60s... I'm not the type of man who sees a communist under every bed. But what I do know because I was Minister of Justice since 1961, that an attempt was made by the communists to overthrow this government..."

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