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• ‟ I'm very interested in heritage restoration, and I'm working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance spaces to encourage native arts and crafts and to explore African history.

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• ‟ I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

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• ‟ When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

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• ‟ When I left South Africa there were 10 million people - when I came back there were more than 40 million. I had to learn how to get to the highways because when I left where there were no highways.

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• ‟ The apartheid people were actors, and they had to act out their part in their beliefs every day. That's why we always saw them as being comedic.

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• ‟ Apartheid didn't impinge on music. It impinged on people's freedoms.

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• ‟ Mandela was chosen as a symbol of the South African struggle, and he did that great. But I wasn't just happy for him. I was happy for the people.

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