Chairperson, His Excellency President T M Mbeki, Hon Deputy .President Mr J G Zuma, Hon Minister of Home Affairs Dr MG Buthelezi, your excellencies, Honourable National Mjnisters and Deputy Ministers, members of the diplomatic corps, members of the consular corps, delegates, members of the KwaZul
In the 1998 parliamentary debate on reconci I iation and nation-bui I ding, then deputy president Thabo Mbeki famously argued that South Africa comprised two 'nations' divided by poverty: