I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.

- P. W. Botha

The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisa…

- P. W. Botha

I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.

- P. W. Botha

You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others.

- P. W. Botha

Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

- P. W. Botha

I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur c…

- P. W. Botha

I am not against the provision of the necessary medical assistance to Coloured and natives, because, unless they receive that medical aid, they becom…

- P. W. Botha

There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner, and that is the Afrikaner himself. It is when the Afrikaner, like a baboonshot in the stomach…

- P. W. Botha

Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.

- P. W. Botha