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.

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.

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.

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

True friends chop the onions and cry together.

Blending into the tinctures and textures of the countryside. The tree which falls without any human hearing still falls, as the creatures who die without being found by a human still die.

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

I decided at the outset to invest in a fairly broad range of businesses, as I didn't want to get pigeonholed into one sector.

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.

I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.

May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.

Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.