It's a big problem in South Africa up to this day: many people want to open factories, they want to invest, but then they discover that they don't have the skilled people to employ.

There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard of.

As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.

I am sure that it wouldn’t be in the long-term interests of China which would continue to depend on these African resources for a very long time to see the emergence of any sense of hostility animosity, tension, da da da, between itself and the African continent.

The public service needs lots of people, South Africa generally, needs lots of people.

The principal investors in the South African economy are South Africans. And this is something, I think, we should really pay attention to.

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.