Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly: Cape Town, 13 April 2008
… and none of the participating countries had granted their women citizens the right to vote at the national level – the … issues of poverty and social equity. Indeed, as we know, history has proven, again and again, that the liberation of … the people in the fight against poverty, because our own history, as South Africans, tells us that, had we failed to …