augural address. "Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disas-
ter that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will
be proud ....
Never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful
land will again experience the oppression of one by another." 66 Mandela
also paid a cordial tribute to his old rival, de Klerk, who was sworn in as
second deputy president. De K.lerk had started the process with a won-
drous break with the past, but it was Mandela who then called the shots
and whose vision of a free South Africa triumphed.v?
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