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community of Mitchell's Plain, asked me to help them to raise funds to paint their school. I then requested Syd Muller of Woolworth, not only to provide funds as asked by Heidi, but also to upgrade the school by building more class -rooms and a laboratory. When Woolworth completed this project we went to launch it. A large group of Coloured women staged a protest demonstration against me. One of them screamed and said in Afrikaans " Kaffir gaan huis toe" ( Kaffir go home) a derogatory jibe. All these racist and deceitful manoeuvres were committed by de Klerk's party, a leader I had repeatedly praised inside and outside the country as a man of integrity with whom we could do business. * The ANC tried to the best of its ability to avoid descending to the level of the National Party. We remained focussed and constructive. We strongly urged all South Africans,