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" For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville. "

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" I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare. "

" The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime. "

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