he explained that the Conservative party's vision of an Afrikaner Volk-
staat was unrealistic because Whites were a minority in every district in
South Africa. Since theN ational party had transformed itself into a mul-
tiracial party, de Klerk also expected to attract Coloured voters, who
spoke Afrikaans and shared white fears of Africans. He claimed that it
was he who had been responsible for the end of apartheid and that only
the National party had the knowledge and experience to run a govern-
ment. He was optimistic because he seemed to assume that the ANC would
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