Governmental Response
On Thursday 5 June 1998, Mohammed Valli Moosa (then minister of constitutional development in the ANC government) stated during a parliamentary budget debate that "the ideal of some Afrikaners to develop the North Western Cape as a home for the Afrikaner culture and language within the framework of the Constitution and the charter of human rights is viewed by the government as a legitimate ideal".
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