Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Sitting of Parliament to Report on the Processing of Some Presidential Pardons: Cape Town, 21 November 2007.
… an indication of the deep scars inflicted by our painful past that thirteen years after the attainment of our freedom … and committed in the course of the conflicts of the past. To this end, Parliament under this Constitution shall … was an important process which, while confronting our ugly past, sought to help us to advance beyond the very conflicts …