The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.

It is increasingly hard for young white people to find jobs, and I can understand why white parents are worried about the future.

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

When you teach, you learn." "And I really don't go for religions of any kind. ...I reject them all....There were principles I thought were very important.

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.