"We dare not see ourselves as a chosen people. We are called people - called to a particular task, just as every nation is a called people."
— P. W. Botha

January 1, 1970

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As prime minister, on a Day of the Covenant rally in Hartenbosch, 16 December 1983, as cited in PW Botha in his own words, Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 29