. . . a good poem contains both meaning and music
I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.
South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.
Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
I don't want to be a celebrity athlete. When you are, there's this pressure on you. It's like you have this halo over your head and have to walk on eggshells. That's not for me. All that glamour builds up a false sense of ego. It's not needed. I'm already happy with who I am. My job is just to get on the podium.
It is my saddest day as an MP when my party brings in a bill which I'm fundamentally opposed to. I'm very sad my party has brought this in without any democratic mandate.
I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.