Kindly convey my greetings to him, and ask him, if he were a young man in Cairo today, whether he would be part of those demonstrations. [Interjections.] I wonder, you see; I don't think so. That makes the difference between us and you. [Applause.] It makes the difference.
The hon Trollip complained that government was too slow to recognise the Egyptian revolution. But you see this business of revolution, of struggle, is deep in our souls, so we identify with the people who struggle in the way that the people of Egypt did.
Madiba would have done it; I am not at all sure that the gentlemen and ladies who are making noise here are in the same mould. In fact, I am sure that they are not.
What did Mandela stand for and what does he stand for? I think that we can sum up what he stands for, and I use the present tense, in a simple phrase: Mandela stands for and has always stood for the transformation of South Africa into an inclusive society; transformation into an inclusive society. I would hope that as we go to our centenary celebrations ... [Interjections.]