A powerful and moving setting of excerpts from Nelson Mandela's inaugural address as President of South Africa given on May 10 1994. Released from a 27 year jail sentence for his brave opposition to arpartheid, Nelson Mandela became President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Commissioned by Ralph Woodward and the "Fairhaven Singers" and first performed in November, 2015 in Queen's College Cambridge, England. "There is no easy road to freedom. None of us acting alone can achieve success. The time for the healing of wounds has come".