UN General Assembly
1963

25. The vital work of liberating Africa will not be completed and the elimination of colonialism will not be achieved as long as any type of oppression of Africans continues to exist anywhere on our continent. Scorning fundamental human rights, the Pretoria Government holds in slavery millions of human beings to whom it denies any human status. Mr. Verwoerd's iniquitous policy of apartheid is designed to eliminate the indigenous population from the national life. The infamous practice of racism has been raised in South Africa to the level of a political doctrine and dogma; the indigenous inhabitants of South Africa, simply because they are black, have no right to take part in the life of their country and are being held in slavery by force and terror by a handful of settlers who are dragging them down to the level of beasts.