We forgive but not forgotten

Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value that is essential to sport.

Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities.

It's in your hands to make the world a better place.

What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual South Africans [to give to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund]. I think we must start from that angle.

Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African.