The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on.

Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.

Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."

Currently, we allow our political and business leaders to get away with murder. Now is the time to change that. We need direct liability for those who are destroying our future and this planet. We need fast, profound and systemic change. History only moves forward when courageous people get up and act. That's why I support this citizens' initiative to recognise ecocide as the crime it is.

In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to the world.

Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult to even comprehend the individual things. Just take homelessness. If you are homeless, what does it mean not to have a post box where people can contact you; what does it mean not knowing where you're going to sleep at the end of the day; what does it mean not having a place where you can store what little you might possess. So dealing with homelessness in itself is a huge thing for most people who are commentators [on] or benefactors to poverty.

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.