Sequel to Long Walk to Freedom - Revision 4 - Chapter 10 Page 7

me only in the Transkei where my meetings went on without trouble. Despite the diplomatic and courteous language used, I did not fare well in the Bantustans of Bophuthatswana, LebowaKgomo in the Transvaal Province, as the Northern Province was then known. The position was equally difficult in Kwazulu/Natal. Lucas Mangope was President of Bophuthatswana, and a difficult customer. I visited his Bantustan in the company of Comrade Joe Modise, who later became our Minister of Defence, Ruth Matseoane who became our ambassador to Switzerland, and Popo Molefe, the present Premier of North West. Before April 1994 no liberation movement could campaign in Mangope’s Bantustan. He first agreed when I requested him to remove all barriers and allow political organisations to campaign freely in his area. Later during the discussion he suddenly pounced an unexpected question on us and asked “when you address a meeting