Mr Lobban added that government online taxation and benefits services could be targeted in future, and said a black economy had already developed which saw UK citizens' credit card details offered for sale.

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Now, at 71, he stood before us and dazzled us with his vision of a future where all South Africans, black and white, would live equally in their homeland.

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The old man was hardly a revolutionary, but he did become more radical as he grew older, getting close to the future black leaders.

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