
Instead of hatred and revenge we chose reconciliation and nation-building.” Instead, we as a people chose the path of negotiation, compromise and peaceful settlement. “We were expected to destroy one another and ourselves collectively in the worst racial conflagration.

Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.” “It is not our diversity which divides us it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us.

“As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many of our people are still without jobs, no South African should rest and wallow in the joy of freedom.”
