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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.