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.

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care.

All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

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 have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.

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