If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.

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

If you look at government policy generally, what government tries to do in all instances is to make sure that we take care of all elements that might relate to a particular issue.

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

We are very keen to see that nobody gets ill-treated or abused.

You cannot just depend on the market, because the market will say: China needs oil; China needs coal; China needs whatever, and Africa has got all these things in abundance. And we go there and get them, and the more we develop the Chinese economy, the larger the manufacturing is, the more we need global markets - sell it to the Africans which indeed might very well destroy whatever infant industries are trying to develop on the continent. That is what the market would do.

The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.