I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.

Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses.

I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.