VIDEO| Joe Biden Was A Leading Voice In The Senate Against Apartheid

IN 1976 Joe Biden traveled to a conference on South Africa near the peak of apartheid.

When he arrived in Johannesburg he refused to be separated from his Congressional Black Caucus colleagues.

Joe’s proud to have been a leading voice in the U.S. Senate against the white supremacist regime of apartheid. Hate must have no safe harbor—then and now.

The clip, taken from C-Span coverage of a Senate committee in 1986, shows Mr Biden passionately speaking out in support of the majority black population of South Africa, and against the oppressive apartheid regime.

Challenging Reagan administration secretary of state George Schultz on government policy towards South Africa, Senator Biden says he is disturbed by the rationale behind it, arguing that it amounts to doing nothing.

Reading from an administration document, Mr Biden says: “We must not become part of South Africa’s problem, we must remain part of their solution, we