This year, 2016, marks 20 years since the adoption of the post-apartheid, democratic constitution by the South African parliament.
Its adoption was ushered in by a rousing speech of then deputy president Thabo Mbeki, which had an ecumenical message and had embraced all the peoples of South Africa in its moving definition of 'I am an African'.
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