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As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

I feel no bond with South Africa, which is curious, since South Africa is where I was born.

I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

This is the strange thing about South Africa - for all its corruption and crime, it seems to offer a stimulating sense that anything is possible.

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.

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.

I am the hero of Africa.

We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.