First Raymond Mhlaba Annual Memorial Lecture delivered by the President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki, 22 August 2008, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
… His father can no longer tell him anything because his past has disappeared." When oppression has destroyed the … of reality among the subjugated, and ensured that their past disappears, they, like James Baldwin, cannot but tell … heroes - such as Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, as the fountain of the national and defining …