I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy, and enables long-term sustainable progress.

It is a very small minority point of view and I think, through continuing to set the tone of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity, you just have to further marginalize such people. Hopefully one day nobody will think that way.

New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.