2009 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 3 June 2009 (After National Elections)
… Republic, Thabo Mbeki, Our icon, the First President of a democratic South Africa, Isithwalandwe Nelson Rolihlahla … went out to cast their votes. They exercised their democratic right spurred on by the desire to change their … that we have a strong and fully functional constitutional democratic system, with solid institutions, that we overcame …