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Heard on Election day:
President Thabo Mbeki:
"The politicians have been doing a
lot of talking...it's now time for the people to speak"
Former President Nelson Mandela:
"I feel elated that I can be able
to assert my right as a citizen and I sincerely hope that the entire world
will abandon violence and use peaceful methods of asserting their right as
citizens"
Former President F.W. de Klerk:
"The next 10 years will be
dominated by the need for orderly, effective socio-economic transformation.
We need to work together to achieve that"
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: "Often they say the first election
after democracy is the last. Many countries degenerate into dictatorships.
We are disproving that. We are taking it in our stride".
Tony Leon, leader of opposition
Democratic Alliance: "Today is the day that the voter
is sovereign...I have every faith and confidence in their judgment by which
I will obviously abide."
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of Nelson Mandela: "We are absolutely certain of an
enormous victory"
Brigalia Bam, chairperson of the
Independent Electoral Commission: "It's amazing. We hear that some people were at (polling)
stations at five o'clock
in the morning. Both young and old -- it's fantastic."
Cowen Bantjatwa, voter in Joe Slovo
squatter camp, Cape Town: "I think it is of great importance
for me to vote. In the past years I have been denied my franchise, which is
my right to vote.
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