In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.