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.

Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

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.

Aid should shift to investment. This will help countries stand on their own.

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

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.

African problems should have African solutions.