UN General Assembly
1987

The many pockets of tension throughout our world continue to be of concern to my country. Among the major problems of our Organization there is the heart-rending situation prevailing in South Africa, where each day the anachronistic racist regime of Pretoria steps up its obstinate determination to perpetuate injustice, misery and suffering of the black majority, which it has deprived of its basic eights, is there any greater challenge to the international community than the pseudo-elections in which only whites may participate, the total gagging of the South African media and the absurd maintenance of a state of emergency? Truly, the supporters of apartheid continue to flout the universal conscience through the inhumanity of their domestic policies and the incessant acts of aggression they perpetuate against the front-line countries and neighbouring States.