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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.