For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.