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Date: 09/02/2004
Source: Western Cape Provincial Government
Title: M van Schalkwyk: Opening of Provincial Parliament
address
OPENING OF THE PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT ADDRESS BY WESTERN CAPE
PREMIER, MARTHINUS VAN SCHALKWYK, IN CAPE TOWN, 9 February
2004
Choosing the Path of Unity for the World Class Province
Introduction
We have great cause for celebration. There has never been a better
moment to be South African, and there is no better place to live in
South Africa than right here in the Western Cape.
Consider for a moment how far we have come, and how fast we have
moved. Ten years is barely sufficient time for the maturation of a
great wine, it is less time than it takes to educate a child, it
represents one 80th of the age of the giant Outeniqua Yellowwood
that towers above the Tsitsikamma Forest. Yet we have accomplished
more to bring human dignity to millions in the first ten years of
South African democracy than was accomplished in the ten decades
that preceded them.
We have seen communities rejoined, hope restored and the creation
of a new strength grounded in our determination to build our future
together.
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