Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.

I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.

What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.

When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.

I do think a healthy opposition is very necessary in a democracy.

Any effort to destabilise any government, taking refuge in one's ideology for promoting violence, conspiring to destabilise and break the country, I feel there cannot be a bigger crime than this.

All the best reasons for going into politics never really change: the desire for glory and fame and the chance to do something that really matters, that will make life better for a lot of people.

Despite Labour's achievements in government, we were too often seen as champions for global capital markets, which worked for bankers but did not seem to be delivering for the rest of Britain.