UN General Assembly
1966

22. On 11 February 1966 there was a declaration establishing the centre of Cape Town as a white area. It is reported that this will uproot about 20,000 non-whites from an area where they have lived for centuries; and the removal of a quarter of a million Africans from homes in the Western Cape to a distant “Bantustan” is reported to have started. 23. Quite recently, the International Commission of Jurists alleged that the South African Government was removing hundreds of political opponents through discreet trials conducted in remote villages and that these trials were for the most part unreported and unnoticed. 24. It is, in my opinion, most lamentable and tragic, in what is considered the most enlightened century of man’s existence, that such a vile and nefarious practice, previously unheard of. should be winked at and that some should even find specious reasons for not permitting this Organization to take effective action to bring it to its deserved ignominious end. Speaking before this Assembly about a year ago, I said: