Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

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

I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.

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

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.

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

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.