P. W. Botha Quote

We do not know what tomorrow will bring. We are not prophets. This is a step in the dark. We can only proceed into the future with faith.


As prime minister, introducing the 4th Amendment to the Constitution Bill, 23 May 1980, which envisaged a tricameral corporate federation. Cited in The Star, and Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, PW Botha in his own words, p. 27


We do not know what tomorrow will bring. We are not prophets. This is a step in the dark. We can only proceed into the future with faith.

We do not know what tomorrow will bring. We are not prophets. This is a step in the dark. We can only proceed into the future with faith.

We do not know what tomorrow will bring. We are not prophets. This is a step in the dark. We can only proceed into the future with faith.

We do not know what tomorrow will bring. We are not prophets. This is a step in the dark. We can only proceed into the future with faith.