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

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

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.

The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections.

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

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.

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