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.

The ANC will rule South Africa until Jesus comes back.

Something has gone wrong with Ronnie... He wasn't like that before. I don't know what went wrong with him.

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.

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

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