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

It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care.

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.

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.

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

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

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