"Despite the advances we have made in our 12 years of freedom, we must also recognise the reality that we still have a long way to go... We should never allow ourselves the dangerous luxury of complacency, believing that we are immune to the conflicts that we see and have seen in so many parts of the world."
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Thabo Mbeki to his fellow South Africans, in The Fourth Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, Johannesburg, South Africa (29 July 2006)
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