REMARKS BY FORMER PRESIDENT FW DE KLERK ON THE RENAMING OF TABLE BAY BOULEVARD IN HIS HONOUR CAPE TOWN
Madam Mayor, honourable Councillors, ladies, gentlemen and dear friends...
I would like to thank you all for the great honour that you have bestowed upon me by deciding to rename Table Bay Boulevard in my honour. I should particularly like to thank the individuals who launched this initiative and who succeeded in securing the support of so many prominent Capetonians - including our Premier and Archbishop Tutu.
As I have said before, this was not an honour that I sought. I was also not at all sure that places and streets should be renamed after living people - and particularly after living former politicians!
However, I have changed my views on this question.
I see this honour - not in the first place as a tribute to me - but as an acknowledgement of the contribution that so many parties, institutions and people made to the creation of our new non-racial constitutional democracy.