I bring you all greetings and salutations from humanist friends in Nigeria, from other parts of Africa and from the rest of the world

I want to assure you all that your humanist and freethought colleagues around the globe wish you well. They wish the humanist movement in South Africa a success and that it grows from strength to strength. They wish that the South African humanist movement would take its rightful place and plays its rightful role in the growth and development of humanism in the region.

So I want to welcome you all to this important program. I want to thank you for creating time to be here and for agreeing to take part in this historic meeting.

For me this conference is a clear mark of change - of change that is coming to the humanist movement in South Africa and the change that humanists are set to bring to this country. So permit me to thank especially our humanist friend and colleague, Jacques Rousseau and other friends at the Free Society Institute of South Africa for agreeing to host us here in Cape Town. Free Society is necessary for humanists and human beings generally to thrive and flourish. And I can’t see any goal better or higher than working and campaigning to create a society where all human beings are free.
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I am really delighted to be in Malawi for this year's humanist conference.

This humanist gathering is yet another clear testimony of the great work Paul, George, Ollen and the rest of you at the Association of Secular Humanists of Malawi are doing.

Please keep it up. Last year we held a small but significant conference here in Malawi. And like I said at that meeting and later in my report, that convention did not reflect the humanist potentials of this country. It did not. And as you can see from the turn out to this year's meeting and other developments since last year, the great days of humanism in Malawi still lie ahead.

But I want you to know that these days will not come if we do not exercise diligence and make the necessary sacrifice. Yes here in Malawi we have some hard and tough choices to make in order put organized humanism in this country on a firm footing.
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