The question arose, how would the communities manage this land on their own. That's why the Communal Land Rights Bill then borrows an institution that is set up in terms of the role and function and powers of the institutional traditional leadership ( borrows that committee and uses that committee).

A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them.

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

The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.

The principal investors in the South African economy are South Africans. And this is something, I think, we should really pay attention to.

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.

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.