Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the 26th Singapore Lecture, “Africa’s Season of Hope: The Dawn of a new Africa-Asia Partnership”, at Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, 21 April 2005.
… the African people from all stations in life - political leaders, businesspeople, the intelligentsia, workers, women, … emergence of a new generation of democratically elected leaders who were and still are committed to deepen democratic … things. First, they had to do what many previous African leaders had done very well, namely to continue to take pride …