Posted on 03/21/2004 3:04:25 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 6:07:26 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - President Thabo Mbeki inaugurated South Africa's new Constitutional Court building Sunday on the grounds of a 100-year-old former prison fortress where Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi were detained.
"It is right that the Constitutional Court occupies this building, which represents the conversion of the negative, the hateful energy ... into a positive hopeful energy for the present and future," Mbeki told whistling and cheering dignitaries, as the court's large wooden doors were thrown open.
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