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

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

Perhaps the one comforting thought I got out of this whole disgusting affair was that over the years when the government was tapping my telephone, it must certainly have heard some home truths from me about themselves, often couched in good Anglo-Saxon terms.

It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers.

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

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.

I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.