For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

The apartheid system renounces no violence.

Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

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

If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.

I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.