Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One thing they have done, one thing people could not be blind to, was the achievement this government has made in giving human beings dignity, which they did not enjoy before. They now have dignity.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

South Africa is the most beautiful place on earth. Admittedly, I am biased but when you combine the natural beauty... and the fact that the region is a haven for Africa's most splendid wildlife... Then I think that we have been blessed with a truly wonderful land.

The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight.

South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10 years since the fall of the Apartheid government and we cannot blame Apartheid for being tardy.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.