The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities.
Let your greatness bloom.
I feel like a young man of 15.
Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value that is essential to sport.
It generally appears outlandish until its carried out.
You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary.
In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people.
We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past, and the expectant air of walking into a brighter future.
Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.
There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.
We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.
I’ve never had a single moment of depression, because I know my cause will triumph.
The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.
Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.
If you are stimulated by what you do, you never get tired.
If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.
I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.
The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced – between the unpalatable and the inedible.
I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.
Apart from life, a strong constitusion and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.