Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional  Assembly on the occasion of the adoption of the new constitution Cape Town, 8 May 1996
… Africa today undergoes her rebirth, cleansed of a horrible past, matured from a tentative beginning, and reaching out to … confidence. The nation teetered on a knife edge over the past few days, with reports of intractable deadlocks and an … of independent civil society structures. While in the past, diversity was seen by the powers-that-be as a basis for …