Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the 26th Singapore Lecture, “Africa’s Season of Hope: The Dawn of a new Africa-Asia Partnership”, at Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, 21 April 2005.
… says, today is Africa's Season of Hope; and we will work together to ensure that the Dawn of a New Asia-Africa … workers, women, youth and politics, is everyday hard at work to address the critical challenge to help bring a better … towards a new period of using our collective strength to work for peace and stability, to strengthen democracy, to …