I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.

I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.

The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?

That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why she bestowed this particular name upon me I have no idea. Perhaps it had something to do with the great British sea captain Lord Nelson, but that would be only a guess.