We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

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.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

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!

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.

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

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.