Certainly we must combine forces . South African troops are within the country.We raised this matter with Mrs [Margaret] Thatcher and Lord [Peter] Carrington when we met them and we wanted to get from them a definite commitment that they were going to get the South African troops out.

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever.

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.