The Rise or Fall of South Africa Quotes

“the erosion of property rights, now the single most serious threat faced by the country given that such rights anchor substantive human liberty in every free and open society. Surrender those rights and you open the door to a socialist future in which civil rights and the rule of law will be greatly eroded.”
― Frans Cronje, The Rise or Fall of South Africa: Latest scenarios

“Mr Mugabe answered ‘Well my message to them is that we would like to see them live in this country free from any restrictions, free from any victimisation, to us we cannot practise racialism in reverse, we just cannot do it in principle … . we would like to see them develop a greater sense of confidence, a greater sense of security, a greater sense of belonging … we would like to create a deep sense of assurance on the part of the whites.’ He then went on to say that he would welcome his black political rivals in the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) – who had won a significant political majority in the south-western region of Matabeleland – into the government. In response to the question of land, Mugabe said, ‘There is lots of land that is unoccupied, land that is underutilised, land under absentee ownership, and this is the land we are going to have to acquire and in doing so we will be quite systematic and orderly … that means of course compensate those whose land will be acquired.’ The”
― Frans Cronje, The Rise or Fall of South Africa: Latest scenarios