When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.

We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

The ANC will rule South Africa until Jesus comes back.

...having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not retard this particular objective the separation of party and state. It does not.

The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy