It was like I was inside a fishbowl in the middle of a typhoon, and everyone else was on the outside cluelessly enjoying lovely weather.
We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.
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.
The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.
I think the biggest misconception about me probably is. . . I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.
He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.
Done right, a strategic intent is really one decision that makes 1,000 decisions.