It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care.

We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.

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.

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

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.

I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

Even when the sun was shining she couldn’t see it. The whole house was closing in on her and she was suffocating.

The bird and the elephant drink from the same river.

A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

Oh, monsters are scared. That's why they're monsters.

There is always something new out of Africa.

I am not God but something similar

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.