When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

The day I am afraid to do, that is the day I am no longer fit to lead.

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

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.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

Soccer is one of the most unifying activities amongst us.