For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians...

The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur.

An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

I feel like a young man of 15.