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.

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.

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.

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.

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

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

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.