A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

In all disputes, a point is arrived at where no party, no matter how right or wrong it might have been at the start of that dispute, will any longer be totally in the right or totally in the wrong. Such a point I believe, has been reached in this debate... Let us not equivocate. A tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa.

Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.

Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all.