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

One of the issues that I have raised in that context is our transport system, road, rail and ports. We have raised this before, that the South African economy has grown at a rate that has overtaken the capacity of the transport system. And therefore, we have said that it is necessary to expand our capacity in the ports.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.

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

We can't treat the matter of black economic empowerment as just the redistribution of existing wealth. It really has to focus on new investment, on growth, on development of employment and so on and so on.

We were asked to host the Pan African Parliament and we agreed to this.

With me, as a town clerk or city manager, there are certain things that I'm supposed to do - if I don't do them, then I don't deserve to continue in this post.