Our fight is against real and not imaginary hardships. Or to use the language of the state prosecutor ‘so-called hardships’.

South Africa is the richest country in Africa. But it is a land of extremes and remarkable contrasts.

The whites enjoy what may well be the highest standards of living in the world whilst Africans live in poverty and misery.

Poverty goes hand in hand with malnutrition and disease.

The incidence of infant mortality is one of the highest in the world.

The lack of human dignity experienced by Africans is the direct result of the policy of white supremacy.

During my lifetime I have dedicated my life to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

It is an ideal for which I hope to live for and to see realised. But my lord, if it needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.