What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human. We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

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.

People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.

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

Africa has decided to take matters of instability into its own hands.

A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease.

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