We are very keen to see that nobody gets ill-treated or abused.

Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times.

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.

We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.

As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of diseases resulting from acquired immune deficiency.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.

The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?"-- Sandre to Catriana

Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.

Don’t be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is not to act when action is needed.

My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.