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The apartheid system renounces no violence.

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

I thought that, post-apartheid, there would be absolutely no interest in South Africa. That has been both true and untrue. The major writers like Gordimer and Coetzee have produced major books. But some of the more minor writers have drifted away.

Now, of course, we know there has been an end to apartheid in South Africa, but what excited me was seeing it in the context of history.

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.