Former President Mbeki quoted: speaking in the voice of the country presents itself as:
“I owe my being to the Khoi and the San who desolate souls haunt the great expanses of the beautiful Cape – they who fell victim to the most merciless genocide our native land has ever seen, they who were the first to lose their lives
in the struggle to defend our freedom and dependence and they who, as a people perished in the result” (Mbeki 1996)
President Jacob Zuma quoted, in his state of the nation address on 9 February 2012 “It is important to remember that the Khoisan were the most brutalized by colonialists who tried to make extinct and under minded their language and identity. As a free and democratic South Africa today, we cannot ignore to correct the past”