"South Africa is not a poor country. As I have said, our budget this year is R126 billion. [The ANC] also are going to reorganise the budget, restructure the budget in order to avoid the wastage of Apartheid. We will be able to use the country's resources in a more efficient manner, and to prevent the corruption which is so endemic in the National Party government. The gravy trains, where most of the funds of the country have gone [to], have come to an end. We have committed ourselves to leaders trying to lead a style of life similar to those of the community. ... I am going to suggest that my own salary, if I am elected as state president, must be cut. I am doing that unlike the National Party government which has ... attempted to pay large sums to the director generals, when there are 5 million people unemployed, when there are 7 million people without houses. We are not going to live as fat cats. My friends in the National Party can do that, that is what they know."
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Nelson Mandela in De Klerk, Mandela pre-election debate rebroadcast, 14 April 2019, SABC (14 April 1994)
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