Extract from a speech at the opening of the National Party Congress of the Orange Free State at Bloemfontein on 18 September 1973
… when he is told: "It hurls him into barren reserves called Bantu Stans" - that is not true. It is, after all, the land … of my Government", and please note, he did not act on his own in an emotional moment or impetuously, he … was attributed to a "communication gap" between the mine authorities and the workers. Cf. Die Transvaler, 20.9.1973; …