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The Protea series commemorates various aspects and important events in the history of South Africa. In 2005, a theme celebrating the “Nobel Peace Prize Winners of South Africa” commenced with Chief Albert Luthuli as the first of South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize winners. Archbishop Desmond Tutu was featured on the 2006 Protea coins and the joint Nobel Peace Prize winners, Mr Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and Mr Frederik Willem de Klerk complete this theme in 2007.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1993 to Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa. From their different points of departure, Mandela and de Klerk had reached agreement on the principles for a transition to a new political order based on the tenet of one man-one vote. By looking ahead to South African reconciliation instead of back at the past, they had shown personal integrity and great political courage. Mandela's and de Klerk's constructive policy of peace and reconciliation also pointed the way to the peaceful resolution of deep-rooted conflicts elsewhere in the world.