The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.

For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.

In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.

Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.