【正文】 ous life for all.
　　All this we owe both to ourselves and to the peoples of the world who are so well representedhere today.
　　To my patriots, I have no hesitation in saying that each one of us is as intimately attachedto the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and themimosa trees of the bushveld.
　　Each time one of us touches the soil of this land, we feel a sense of personal renewal. Thenational mood changes as the seasons change.
　　We are moved by a sense of joy and exhilaration when the grass turns green and the flowersbloom.
　　That spiritual and physical oneness we all share with this mon homeland explains thedepth of the pain we all carried in our hearts as we saw our country tear itself apart in a terribleconflict, and as we saw it spurned, outlawed and isolated by the peoples of the world,precisely because it has bee the universal base of the pernicious ideology and practiceof racism and racial oppression.
　　We, the people of South Africa, feel fulfilled that humanity has taken us back into its bosom,that we, who were outlaws not so long ago, have today been given the rare privilege to behost to the nations of the world on our own soil.
　　We thank all our distinguished international