As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
South Africa now needs skilled and educated people to say 'How do we manage and develop this democratic country?' — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
We need to increase the capacity; we need to improve performance so that we are more effective at lending that kind of… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The public service needs lots of people, South Africa generally, needs lots of people. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
We have a series of regular meetings with South African business. Big business. Black business. Agriculture. As well, of course, with the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
For an investor who is sitting in the United States, and South Africa is very far from the United States, you need… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The problems that are arising at Johannesburg International Airport are because of the growth of volume, not because of inefficiencies at the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The Communal Land Rights Bill then said, since there would be those collectives set up in terms of the other legislation, there… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
It is critically important that Iran should not develop nuclear weapons. And that the necessary interventions need to be made by the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
You might indeed be able to provide this money that people need to start a business, but can they run a business?… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
You need to be able to do that to market these possibilities to these specific investors who would be interested in a… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
China surely must be interested in a more stable, non-antagonistic relationship with the African continent precisely because of its own needs. And… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
You cannot just depend on the market, because the market will say: China needs oil; China needs coal; China needs whatever, and… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
There is a land problem in Zimbabwe, there is a need land for redistribution but it must be handled different, without violence,… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
There is a section of our population in South Africa that you can't expect to get integrated in the economy of its… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
You can say to this unemployed family, people are indigent, that they must pay for water and this and that and refuse… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
That it is not enough to catch a criminal and get them convicted and so on, because the victim remains with the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
I think the critical point, really, is that we need to focus black economic empowerment more on the creation of new wealth… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Clearly, there needs to be an increase in the capacity of the railway system. That's why there are these projections of increasing… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
We need to do a lot of restructuring of the existing ports, particularly Durban. The separation of oversight and regulation from operations… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The matters I am talking about regarding the ports. That matter has been discussed with the unions, and agreed, and therefore there… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
That is one of the reasons why we have raised this matter about the need to focus quite sharply on the function… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to understand what China would need from the African continent with regards to its own economy, raw materials,… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
What we are saying is that we need to consolidate the capacity to lend support. Because, one of the problems that's mentioned… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
I am quite convinced that we need to increase the resources that go to municipalities if we want the municipalities to do… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
I think anybody who knows anything about South Africa and the South African economy would know that one of the big constraints… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Сertainly to the extent that we talk about not just procurement in the sense of acquiring goods from the rest of the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share
That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history,… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share
I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share
What we are saying is that we need to consolidate the capacity to lend support. Because, one of the problems that's mentioned with regard… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share
I say that why don't we bring all points of view. Sit around a table and discuss this evidence, and produce evidence as it… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share
As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share
I think you're a much happier person if you say 'Even if I get involved in politics, I'm only doing so in order to… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share
I must say, with regard to Equatorial Guinea, the Government of Equatorial Guinea, as soon as they had arrested these people, sent a delegation… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share
We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with the United States. We will be negotiating agreements with India and China. We are… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share
“Her work sought to challenge all of us critically to reflect on the things we find comfort in believing without question.” — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share
Of course we run a very open economy, and therefore what happens in the rest of the world, in economic terms, obviously has an… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share
Part of the issue around communal land, which became a matter of controversy, is that we are saying that this land must go back… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share
Historically during the years of the White minority regimes, the State, the national Government held this land in trust for these communities. We said,… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share
We want the National Intelligence, we want the Police, we want the Scorpions, any other institutions, the tax people, and so on, the totality… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share
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