Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.

South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.

In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.