Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

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

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

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

I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.

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.