We have a series of regular meetings with South African business. Big business. Black business. Agriculture. As well, of course, with the trade unions. A whole series of meetings like that which engage issues that these South African social partners need to address.

I know there is a lot of concern I know about plans that Iran might have to develop nuclear weapons which arises from positions that Iran took in the past when in fact it did not disclose things to the IAEA… because they were hiding something. I can understand that.

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

Really, a critical matter in the public service is radically to improve the quality of management.

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest

Our troops are in Burundi. We were requested by African countries who said, look, the United Nations is not moving on this matter, can you people deploy people, so we can move Burundi forward.

The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.