have been pushed to the brink by broken promises. We have been disillusioned again and again. If you now promise the sun, moon and stars, and again fail to deliver, South Africa will go up in flames.
Righteous anger is boiling over in our nation. As you put it, the milk of human kindness seems to have gone sour. One cannot turn sour milk sweet again just by adding a few spoons of sugar. We need to trace back and figure out what went wrong.
This year's theme is quite appropriate: "Following up on our commitments". There is one particular commitment that was never fulfilled, and I believe it is ground zero for the present social fragmentation.
On the 19th of April 1994, Mr Mandela, President de Klerk and I signed a Memorandum of Agreement. We committed to engage international mediation immediately after the first democratic elections, to resolve the outstanding issues from the