There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.

I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make the world a more gentle, a more compassionate, a more caring world.

When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you are a Muslim and you look at what is happening there, it fills you with a lot of resentment. Especially if you are weak, then you are nursing these grudges and you are increasing in bitterness and look for a chance to get your own back.

I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone.