I feel no bond with South Africa, which is curious, since South Africa is where I was born.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, and before that, my family lived in Kenya in Nairobi where my brother was actually born, and my sister was born in Capetown. I spent the first 10 years of my life in South Africa.
I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
I never thought I'd be comfortable living outside South Africa, but we love London. Our two kids were born here.
As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.
South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.
South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.
Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.
For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.
At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.
People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.