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Date
: 02/10/2005
Source: Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism
Title: van Schalkwyk: Gandhi Memorial Lecture
Annual Gandhi Memorial Lecture delivered by Marthinus
van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs & Tourism, at
the Phoenix Settlement in Durban
THREE GARLANDS FOR THE GREAT SOUL: A CALL TO ACTION IN THE GLOBAL
SECOND ECONOMY
Introduction
It was the Mahatma himself who once observed: "I have learned
through bitter experience that the one supreme lesson is to
conserve my anger - and as heat conserved is transmitted into
energy, even so our anger, controlled, can be transmitted into a
power that can move the world."
Gandhi's life and death was never premised on the creation
of a great legacy, a Gandhian ideology, or even a footnote in
history. It was instead truth as he saw it, and learned about it,
and experienced it