The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.

Really, a critical matter in the public service is radically to improve the quality of management.

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.

You'll find a lot of rural municipalities, very, very big district municipalities that actually have no tax base whereas our system of government presumes that the bulk of resources from government will come from resources that they will generate themselves.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.

It is quite easy to understand what China would need from the African continent with regards to its own economy, raw materials, oil and a market for manufactured goods. As I say it is not difficulty to understand and perfectly legitimate. There is nothing wrong with that.

While the WTO negotiations will continue, there are other trade negotiations of a bilateral nature, which among other things, should help to open up these markets for South African products.