Nelson Mandela: “I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”

This is unprecedented in South Africa. And we should thank her for providing these young girls with not only specialized education, but life skills. That will ensure that they become the best.

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

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.

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.