Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

I am calling an early special conference to resolve the leadership question in a democratic fashion so that our annual Party Conference in July will be able to focus solely on mapping the way forwards towards an IFP victory in the 2009 general election.

I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.