One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.
When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.
We have got to move away from the concept of race and color because that is what apartheid is. We cannot end apartheid if we retain these concepts.
I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.
The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex. Material want is bad enough, but coupled with spiritual poverty, it kills.
Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.
Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore.
I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.