First Raymond Mhlaba Annual Memorial Lecture delivered by the President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki, 22 August 2008, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
… Raymond Mhlaba, on February 27, 2005, I had the honour to deliver the Funeral Oration. On that day I said: "It is … people, on this small and drifting planet Whose hands can strike with such abandon That, in a twinkling, life is sapped … That the haughty neck is happy to bow And the proud back is glad to bend Out of such chaos, of such contradiction …