Abstract
Speech delivered at the opening of the South African Pavilion at Milner Park, Johannesburg on April 2 1980.
Highlights
I received the invitation to open this exhibition with great pleasure and I must confess with not a little surprise
I think, usual for private businessmen to be asked to open Government exhibitions, and that the private businessman chosen on this occasion should be me is surely something that, say, eighteen months ago would have been almost inconceivable
It is obvious that I owe this honour - an honour which I very much appreciate - to the new relationship between the Government and the private sector of the economy which was signalled by the Prime Minister's meeting with leading businessmen in Johannesburg in November last year
Summary
Speech delivered at the opening of the South African Pavillion at Milner Park, Johannesburg on April 2 1980. At the Prime Minister's meeting with businessmen to which I have already referred, I expressed the opinion, which the Prime Minister was kind enough to endorse, that no constellation of states would succeed it if were to be conceived as a fortress or laager in a hostile world It should, on the contrary, be thought of as part of an open door policy, both economically and politically, and as a means of improving our relations with our neighbours in Africa and with the great democracies of the Western world whom we would like to be able to think of as our friends. President Kaunda, of Zambia, has recently held a conference of Southern and Central African States in Lusaka with the object apparently of forming a different sort of constellation from which we in South Africa would be excluded Such a concept could not possibly hope to succeed. I am, optimistic enough to believe that our Government's new policy, if it is honestly and urgently pursued, will meet with the response which it deserves from Black Africa
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