Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional  Assembly on the occasion of the adoption of the new constitution Cape Town, 8 May 1996
… African people have endured in search of a better future. As one, you the representatives of the overwhelming majority … to grip the national imagination like the plague! Be that as it may, we dare not, in the midst of the excitement of … majority rule. Today, we formalise this consensus. As such, our nation takes the historic step beyond the …