Extract from a speech during a political meeting held on 17 June 1971 at Naboomspruit in the Waterberg constituency
… many reasons, among others that we have never done to the Black man what was done to us in South Africa. In my time as Minister of Justice I acted against many Black people, and my predecessors and others acted against … them, but in South Africa we have never acted against a Black man who said that he wanted to be a Black man, to speak …