UN General Assembly
1966

117. We, for our part, had real hopes for the independence of the three territories under British Mandate-Basutoland, Swaziland and Bechuanaland. We believed that the international community had only to give its material and moral support to those countries for them to preserve their independence and territorial integrity and that it had only to help their economic and social development for them to enjoy real independence and exert a salutary influence over South Africa, through the example of democratic societies, free of all discrimination, which they would give. But we cannot suppress our grave disquiet at the trend apparent in those countries which have Governments that seem anxious to become the accomplices of South Africa and Portugal -countries for which a Head of Government has already become the spokesman, during a humiliating visit to the former Prime Minister of South Africa, Mr. Verwoerd. We address an appeal to those States to show courage and determination to safeguard their independence and to trust the international community and their African brother States. It is certainly not by becoming or by acting as disguised Bantustans that they will aid the victory of the African cause and the achievement of their peoples’ legitimate aspirations.