I think anybody who knows anything about South Africa and the South African economy would know that one of the big constraints to growth and development is skills shortages. So all of us, need to come at this thing as vigorously as is possible and, of course, the private sector has the capacity to take it on board.

We have been engaging the Government of Swaziland for some time on this issue of the democratization of Swaziland. In particular, I had asked the Deputy President to engage the Government on this and, indeed, he has. We will continue to do this, because we do think that, as has been communicated to the Government of Swaziland, that Swaziland must go through this democratization process, a constitution-making process in which they have been engaged for some time, and really seek a national consensus about it.

In Africa you have space...there a profound sense of space here, space and sky

South Africa now needs skilled and educated people to say 'How do we manage and develop this democratic country?'

You can see now with all the assurance that people have about the overall general management of the economy, they then ask more specific questions that we are able to answer.

We are a very big mining country and historically have been exporters of raw minerals. There is no particular reason why we should not be processing those further.

Our troops are in Burundi. We were requested by African countries who said, look, the United Nations is not moving on this matter, can you people deploy people, so we can move Burundi forward.