Nelson Mandela: “Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it.”

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

He did not make any of his reforms with the intention of putting himself out of power. He made them for precisely the opposite reason: to ensure power for the Afrikaner in a new dispensation.

Yes, sanctions were helpful. But they would not have been sufficient if there were not a strong indigenous democratic movement in South Africa. Until you have that in Nigeria, sanctions will not help.

I want everybody to come to the table, everybody to be a part of the new South Africa, everybody to vote.