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

What moved us was not so much what would it do for South Africa, but there has been a great keenness on the Continent that the location of the Pan African Parliament must add to its credibility. And, so we said, fine, it's a contribution to this process of the democratisation of the African Continent.

There must be no abuse of people and they did ask that the South Africa Government should give them whatever support they needed to make sure that they have a proper legal process, proper detention, no abuse of people during interrogation and all of that. And so, we agreed.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

We were asked to host the Pan African Parliament and we agreed to this.

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.