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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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