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.

Same sex marriage is a disgrace to the nation and to God. When I was growing up, ‘ungqingili’ [homosexuals in isiZulu] could not stand in front of me, I would knock him out.

Our media, which is very open and report on really everything, tend to exaggerate the crime issue...This is why one gets the impression that we have much more crime than other countries.

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white.

The results will be very good.