Rainbow nation

For the album, see Bronski Beat.
Not to be confused with Rainbow Tribe or Rainbow Family.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is credited with coining the phrase Rainbow nation.

"Rainbow nation" is a term coined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to describe post-apartheid South Africa after South Africa's first democratic election in 1994.

The phrase was elaborated upon by President Nelson Mandela in his first month of office, when he proclaimed: "Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld – a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world."[1]

  1. ^ cited in Manzo 1996, p. 71