Elections - 1987

(PW Botha requests a mandate from voters)
 

A mandate I ask of you,
The same I have asked before,
Please let me carry on giving
To the Blacks more and more.

The last request I made
At the Referendum, you recall?
Was for Coloured and Indians;
This one, friends, is for all.

And please don't be disturbed.
Believe me, it's for the best;
I promise that we will pass
The Internationalist Test.

Just like the others before us -
Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania ,
We'll be given our Diploma
When we became Azania.

So, vote for me and you will see
That I shall not slack the pace
Until we have given the lot
To our brothers of the Black race.

Empangeni, 1987.
 

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