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A. I am talking about compromise in general. Compromise means accommodating the point of view of the other party. We are prepared to do that.
Q. Is this your personal view?
A. It is the view of the A.N.C. that a compromise will be necessary when you are negotiating. If you don't intend having a compromise, you don't negotiate at all.
Q. Is President De Klerk's fear of a right-wing backlash justified?
A. He has no reason to fear the right-wing backlash. He fears it because he is concentrating on the Afrikaners in this country. Or on whites alone. He is not taking advantage of the potential support he might get if he adopts the policy of a nonracial South Africa. He would get overwhelming support. He has already got over 75% of the whites in this country. Therefore, if he emancipates himself from thinking only of Afrikaners and thinks of whites, he will be assured of 75% of white voters. But if he expands the scope of this initiative, he will get the overwhelming support of blacks.
Q. Are white fears of black domination justified?
A. They are not at all justified. We have set out our policy in the Freedom Charter. That policy ought to satisfy everybody that we don't mean to dominate anybody.
Q. How seriously do you take the reports of threats to your life?
A. There is no threat whatsoever from the so-called radical left. The only threat can be from the right wing.
Q. Are you concerned?
A. No, my people will protect me.
Q. When will blacks be free in this country?
A. I am no prophet. I cannot say.