UN General Assembly
1964

42. The picture I have given of our policy and its implementation has not been a detailed one and certainly does not reflect the progress which has been made in many other aspects of the development of the Bantu who live in South Africa. I have also not covered, in this review, what is being done to assist the Asian and Coloured population groups towards the attainment of control over their own interests. Nor have I dealt with what is being done for the very large number of Bantu who live in the homeland of the white South African nation, with the opportunities offered to them in respect of employment, education,' housing, social and health services, and so on, and how they are preparing themselves for the important role, politically and otherwise, which awaits them in their respective homelands. I have refrained from doing this because statistics, of themselves, seldom carry conviction in an address of this kind. It is perhaps more useful to refer to a fact which is all too commonly overlooked by those who so constantly condemn us and who seek to persuade the nations of the world to resort to sanctions against us.