29 - Jessie Duarte, interview by Tony Trew, Johannesburg, 15 July 2014.

In that week Madiba phoned all heads of state that had assisted the ANC during the election campaign. I remember being very tired, the whole office was tired, because we had to phone everybody. We phoned all his friends in the Middle East and because of the time differences we had to wait for them to wake up in the morning. He phoned everybody. There was this list of people that he had that needed calling, personal phone calls for him to thank them. And what impressed me was that he also called people like Buthelezi and people like Matanzima and people like that, to say ‘We must go forward, we must go forward together.’ Thanking people was a very big thing for him.