It was an unusual background and I often felt a cultural clash between my school and home environments. - Helen Zille

Liberals make space for people with opposing views. I believe in the falsification principle — one must always look for reasons why one may be wrong rather.

I must tell you that the attitude of the staff, which had been one of anger initially, changed quite fundamentally after this incident. I think what changed the dynamic was that I had experienced some of their daily reality, and the conditions under which they work.

It was interesting to note that every time events in our history offered people a choice between race or class solidarity, race seemed to win. Marxists were ingenious at explaining this away, but it was all rather tortuous. Marxists have to squeeze facts into their framework, to prove the historical inevitability of the working class revolution and the demise of capitalism.