We do not know what tomorrow will bring. We are not prophets. This is a step in the dark. We can only proceed into the future with faith. - P. W. Botha

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

No more mine-laying. No more murder. No more abduction of women and children. No more attacks on headmen. No more raids across the border. So long as these conditions do not exist there will be no withdrawal [from South-West Africa] of South African troops.

With the with­drawal of Britain east of the Suez and the consequent vacuum caused in the Middle East, and the stocking of arsenals in some African states by Russia and China, the dangers threatening South Africa today are greater than ever before.