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

The matter of who governs Zimbabwe is a matter that is in the hands of the people of Zimbabwe.

Clearly, there needs to be an increase in the capacity of the railway system. That's why there are these projections of increasing the capacity to carry freight on the railways by 30% over the next five years or so, because the volume of goods moved up and down, imports, exports, and within the country, has grown much larger than the capacity. And this is part of the higher costs to business, because charges, for instance, at the ports become too high and they put up the prices of these goods, whether they are imports or exports. You want to reduce that.

A democratic government in South Africa is not a threat to white people.

If you look for instance at the automobile industry, part of the reason that you have the expansion of that sector, is precisely because we have gone out to talk to the automobile companies to explain government policy with regard to that sector, to talk to them about the MIDP and things like that. And indeed, it has been a very important part of attracting those investors to put in money in the South African economy and build motorcars in South Africa.

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

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.