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  • Today we have closed the book on apartheid.

    - F(rederik) W(illem) de Klerk
      On the endorsement of his government's reform programme following a referendum of white South  Africans. In The Independent,19 Mar.

  • We don't want apartheid liberalized.We want it dismantled.You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

    - Desmond Mpilo Tutu
      Speech, Mar.

  • When I left South Africa, I arrogantly predicted that within seven years, apartheid would be gone. It has taken a bit longer than that.

    - Donald Woods
      BBC TV broadcast, Feb.

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