Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at a Joint Sitting of the Houses of Parliament on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town, 8 May 2006
… the adoption by the then Constitutional Assembly of our Constitution in this very House, exactly 10 years ago. I am … into law on International Human Rights Day, December 10, 1996, in Sharpeville, the site of the Sharpeville Massacre 36 … Reconciliation began its hearings 10 years ago, in April 1996. This Special Session of Parliament must therefore also …