Nelson Mandela: “I am happy to know you. I hope that one day we shall have the opportunity to discuss the affairs of our country.”

It`s always impossible until it`s done.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

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.