South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.

I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.