You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents.

You can't abandon people there and say, go and find a job, when you know they are not going to be able to find one, and therefore starve to death. So we have got to address that matter, but we have got to address it systematically.

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!

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

We would continue to handle our relations with the rest of the Continent with that kind of sensitivity.

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.

I don't suppose I would describe myself as a showman.