I think that's a work in progress on that topic because we always have to remember the historical context and freedom of speech. Why freedom of speech is protected in the Constitution. We always have to juxtapose that with what was there before and what we have now and is not perfect and it's not going to be perfect. 

But do journalists feel that their lives are threatened every day in South Africa by writing stories? No, but I do think, though, that there are some cases of intimidation that do happen and that shows that whatever that you can do, you always have to look at how much progress has been made as opposed to identifying isolated incidents and want to use that to portray it as a bigger problem. 

So, I really do think that media freedom is thriving in the country and freedom of speech with its protections and all.

I think more could be done. And I'm lucky that I speak from a position of having been in the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture and the Minister's office, having seen budget allocations and all of that. 

You know, it is an absolute travesty what is happening in this country. Sport is supposed to be an instrument of nation building.

Can you believe it, that the budget for sport is only 1 billion rand? So 1 billion rand to run sport, bringing infrastructure, development and all of that, it's nowhere near enough!

I think that if there was more emphasis in capacitating sport development, sport infrastructure, there would be a lot less social ills in the country. 

You go to the communities now where I, for instance, used to play soccer in Middelburg in a dusty patch of ground. It's now a driving school, so kids in the township in rural areas do not have facilities. 

And yet billions were spent on World Cup infrastructure. Not that it was wrong, but if you are able to redirect public funds into those major investments, then it's only a matter of political will. 

Girls want to play netball, they don't have netball courts and kids who want to play rugby or football in the township don't have facilities. Our priorities on that topic are wrong in this country. Completely wrong.

First, we must say what is mental health? What is health? So you have physical health, people go to gym or they exercise to maintain their physical health. Then there's spiritual health, people go to, I don't know, different churches or religious congregations to harness their spiritual health. 

Then there's mental health. I think that is the part that is largely misunderstood because mental health really deals with the mind first. 

If you are able to go and strengthen the body and make it strong because you do gym and all of that, then what are the techniques that are widely available for people to train their mind? 

Because when you talk about mental health, it's not any different to how you strengthen the body, how you strengthen other things.

We know how to rest the body because we just sleep, but even when you're laying down, the mind is thinking when you are sleeping, the mind is busy dreaming. So the mind never stops. 

So I think more has to be done with just the basic curriculum at school level, at basic education level.