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Now, of course, we know there has been an end to apartheid in South Africa, but what excited me was seeing it in the context of history.

The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.

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.

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.