The Wild Geese (1978)

Winston Ntshona: President Julius Limbani

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• Lt. Pieter Coetze : We whites have carried you people on our backs ever since we came to this country.

  Julius Limbani : It's the other way around now, is it?

  Lt. Pieter Coetze : Is it? You need me to save your miserable black life now, don't you?

  Julius Limbani : I do. And then you may need me to save yours. We need each other, white man. And that's the way it should be. We've got the whole world using us now. Setting group against group, destroying Africa. Our new freedom is just a new label for their brand of slavery. And a final blood bath is coming. First between black and white, and then between black and black when you whites have left Africa for good.

  Lt. Pieter Coetze : Man, we've built your countries, and now you're kicking us out or almost all of them! You're living on foreign aid, robbing your own people blind, crying about outside oppression while you kill each other in great big bleeding batches. Once you have something better to offer, then you can come talk to us in the white south.

  Julius Limbani : We both have something better to offer. Listen to me, because the white south is next unless you learn.

  Lt. Pieter Coetze : Oh, bullshit! We whites were born here. We're just as African as you are. And don't make a mistake, we're going to stay.

  Julius Limbani : I'm glad to hear that. Then you better join us, and help us sort out our future.

  Lt. Pieter Coetze : Join you?

  Julius Limbani : We have to learn to care for each other, or there will be nothing left of our Africa but a burnt-out battlefield.

  Lt. Pieter Coetze : You have a point there. But do you have an answer?

  Julius Limbani : I have the will to look for one. We have to forgive you for the past, and you have to forgive us for the present. If we have no future together, white man, then we have no future. That's what I believe in, and that's what I'm willing to die for.

  Lt. Pieter Coetze : You're beginning to sound good to me. Maybe we need you. Maybe you're just the man.

• Julius Limbani : The man is dead, Mr. Faulkner. Now only the spirit remains.