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

You can say to this unemployed family, people are indigent, that they must pay for water and this and that and refuse removal and so on. They have no money. We may very well say that, but does the municipality have the capacity to do it? So, that's why we said that we need to have a thorough look at the functioning of local government and that will include the financing. So that this poor person does indeed access that water.

We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa.

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.

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.

We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.

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.