I am quite convinced that we need to increase the resources that go to municipalities if we want the municipalities to do the things the Constitution and the law say they must do. It can't be avoided.

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

We have to continue to confront the challenge of corruption within the public service.

South Africa now needs skilled and educated people to say 'How do we manage and develop this democratic country?'

I would regret it if I'd failed at school and university, because if I had, I would have lacked the levels of education necessary to making a serious contribution to building South Africa.

Of course we run a very open economy, and therefore what happens in the rest of the world, in economic terms, obviously has an impact on us.

The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.