I think the critical point, really, is that we need to focus black economic empowerment more on the creation of new wealth rather than on these big deals that have been characteristic of this process in the past, of people going to banks, borrowing a lot of money, buying this and when the shares don't perform very well, the shares go back to the banks, because there's other people who own this anyway. I think we need to re-focus it so that it really does impact on growth, new investment, new employment and a general, better spread of wealth in South Africa.

That it is not enough to catch a criminal and get them convicted and so on, because the victim remains with the consequences of the crime. Something needs to be done. Let's complete that process, interact with civil society about this, so that we will specify what is it that we do in the context of that Charter that would then make this positive impact on people who might have been affected by crime.

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

We are improving the entirety of the system. You have got to make the grants available.

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

We need to increase the capacity; we need to improve performance so that we are more effective at lending that kind of support.

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest