None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

There are established processes of consultation between the Government, the parastatals and the trade unions, which have worked in the past. And I don't see any particular reason why they shouldn't work.

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to.

Certainly the Government has tried to handle the matter of our relations with the rest of the Continent in a very sensitive manner.

We are a very big mining country and historically have been exporters of raw minerals. There is no particular reason why we should not be processing those further.