"Translated from Afrikaans: Dit is 'n dag van groot gebeure. Ons kan hulde bring aan ons Staatspresident en aan ons Republiek."
— Hendrik Verwoerd

January 1, 1970

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Public address on 31 May 1961 at the declaration of the Republic and inauguration of the State President, as quoted by N. F. Hefer & G. C. Basson in Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, Pictorial Biography 1901-1966, p. 97. Voortrekkerpers (1966)