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

As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.

There must be public servants who are working regularly among the people.

You cannot just depend on the market, because the market will say: China needs oil; China needs coal; China needs whatever, and Africa has got all these things in abundance. And we go there and get them, and the more we develop the Chinese economy, the larger the manufacturing is, the more we need global markets - sell it to the Africans which indeed might very well destroy whatever infant industries are trying to develop on the continent. That is what the market would do.

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

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 engagements with the International Investment Council have developed in a very interesting way. It is, again, the point I raised at the beginning.