I don't think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don't think the facts would substantiate that argument.

As I said, the matter of the Pan African Parliament was raised with us by other African countries who said we should host.

The people who steal cars, there's somebody there who is the master, who orders the cars, or just takes a car when it is brought? I am saying the law enforcement authorities have a pretty good idea about a lot of these kind of persons. We want it to pool all that knowledge and all those resources, so that they focus on these people.

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

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

I have absolutely no problem with the press criticising policies and the things that we do, the things that we say.

You'll find a lot of rural municipalities, very, very big district municipalities that actually have no tax base whereas our system of government presumes that the bulk of resources from government will come from resources that they will generate themselves.