The Fourth Annual Lecture
The Fourth Annual Lecture was delivered by South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki on July 29, 2006.
Quoting from poetry, the Bible and great works on economics, Mbeki urged people against the worship of personal wealth. We must “defeat the tendency in our society towards the deification of personal wealth as the distinguishing feature of the new citizen of the new South Africa,” he said.
“Personal pursuit of material gain, as the beginning and end of our life purpose, is already beginning to corrode our social and national cohesion,” he added.
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The Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, 2003-2006
This booklet consolidates the four Nelson Mandela Annual Lectures delivered to date and demonstrates the diverse views of the four eminent people who delivered these lectures.
Fourth Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture 2006
On July 29, 2006, President Thabo Mbeki delivered the fourth Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in honour of Mr Nelson Mandela’s 88th birthday.