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"My opinion is that under the gaze of history he felt there was no
way in which he could separate himself off from the Afrikaners while
retaining his self-respect, even if that meant being associated with all
that the Afrikaners were responsible for, politically."

" To me, on the other hand – pardon me for saying
this, but he is dead, so I cannot hurt his feelings – to me he is nothing.
He is nothing, was nothing, just an irritation, an embarrassment. He
was nothing and his words were nothing. I can see you are cross
because I make him look like a fool. Nevertheless, to me he really was
a fool."

'He is a weak man,' I said. 'A weak man is worse than a bad man. A
weak man does not know where to stop. A weak man is helpless before
his impulses, he follows wherever they lead.'