Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional  Assembly on the occasion of the adoption of the new constitution Cape Town, 8 May 1996
… of millions. And so it has come to pass, that South Africa today undergoes her rebirth, cleansed of a horrible … these issues, lies a fundamental sea-change in South Africa's body politic that this historic moment symbolises. … moments, it had been agreed that once and for all, South Africa will have a democratic constitution based on that …