Sequel to Long Walk to Freedom - Revision 4.1 - Chapter 3 Page 4

irrespective of colour or creed to join the fight for a democratic, united, non-racial and non-sexist South Africa. In that campaign we also experienced difficulties from some of our members who made rash statements contrary to our basic policy. We immediately condemned publicly such behaviour. The correctness of that strategy was fully rewarded when we won a landslide victory at the polls. The white right-wing was another potentially destabilising factor that affected the general mood during the period leading up to the elections. How we managed to neutralise that threat and bind the leadership into constructive participation, is told in more detail elsewhere in the book. Stories were abounding about whites who were adopting a siege mentality, stocking up their houses with food and other emergency supplies. After the elections, when all was over