The event is relevant to black history in uniting all people together.

It wasn't something planned. Elections are coming up and the SA needs to realize that our representation is crucial.

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.

The reform belies the history of a country that's invested a lot in university titles. But if you think about it, if everyone is a doctor it's like saying that no one is a doctor. It basically brings us back to the starting point.

The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.

Years go by and people are together, but there was an individual there for 26 years, or whatever, who was absolutely fine, coping without you.