By ancestry, I was born to rule.

It always gives me great pleasure to be surrounded by the beautiful children of our land. Whenever I am with the energetic young people ... I feel like a recharged battery, confident that our country can look forward to great things.

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.

The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity

Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon

I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.

We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.