UN General Assembly
1975

189. It is well known that in principle the issues of Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa are separate and call for separate treatment. A few white settlers, rebelling against constitutional authority and suppressing by far the great majority of the citizens, a Territory under United Nations Mandate illegally occupied, a settler regime practicing racist policies that are revolting to the conscience of the whole world those are th§ three distinct issues. In reality, however, the apartheid republic of Vorster has become like a big horrid spider sitting in the center of the entire southern African region, entangling everything and everybody in its odious web. The result is that we cannot hope for a political solution in Rhodesia, for instance, without finding that big spider first of all ensuring that any such solution suits its purposes and, secondly, giving the impression that it was the spider itself that caused the great liberal change in Rhodesia, for which all Africa should feel grateful. Meanwhile, within its own republic, the spider spins the web of its spurious policy of bantustanism, which it labels as a policy of self-determination for the black South Africans. Mr. Vorster's webs are indeed assiduously spread as communications channels all over Africa, and along those channels he sells his curious concepts of enlightened influences in Rhodesia and magnanimous political and social concessions to black South Africans.