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investment.
Yes. Let's come back to that. This was a question of investment and disinvestment.
It wasn't disinvestment. It was a question of investment.
In your case with your client?
Oh, yes, with my client. But we did talk about disinvestment, of course. And interestingly enough, the majority of blacks weren't at that time negative towards-- I mean, they were not in favor of disinvestment as such. On an interesting rationale, that whatever happened in South Africa, there had to be some economic base in terms of the jobs for the Africans, for the black South Africans. At that time maybe more so than now, there was the belief that the immediate victims of disinvestment were likely to be the blacks. I don't know that that is as strong a position now as it was then. Because don't forget this visit occurred a month or two before Soweto. And my late wife accused me of being an instrument in inciting Soweto. [LAUGHTER]
Why would your wife have thought that you incited those riots?
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