If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.

There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard of.

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

We very constantly run this campaign to encourage people to go and get Identity Documents, to register, and so on. We'll continue to do that.

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

You might indeed be able to provide this money that people need to start a business, but can they run a business? This new consolidated agency [National Empowerment Fund] focuses on that matter of preparing people so that they can run business successfully.

I must say that, in the first instance, we got the request from many African countries who said, look, you people had better host the Parliament. So, the general feeling around the Continent was that it would be better that the Parliament was based here. In part, because of what this country has done with regard to establishing a democratic system, and we have responded to that. We have said, fine.