This is the poem quoted by President Mandela at the inauguration of the first Democratic Parliament in South Africa:
- “The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of those who gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans and citizens of the world. The certainties that come with age tell me that among these we shall find an Afrikaner woman… Her name is Ingrid Jonker.”
And he read: “The Child who was shot at Nyanga”:
- The child is not dead...
written March 1960
