We identified various sectors of the economy, which we said were growth sectors. I have mentioned tourism. We said, for instance, agro-business.… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
There are established processes of consultation between the Government, the parastatals and the trade unions, which have worked in the past. And… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
There is a tendency just to talk about foreign investors. Over 80 per cent of new investment in the South African economy… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Procurement policies of all of the major parastatals, it is a very important element of that processes that will continue. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with the United States. We will be negotiating agreements with India and China.… — 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
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
There must be no abuse of people and they did ask that the South Africa Government should give them whatever support they… — 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
What moved us was not so much what would it do for South Africa, but there has been a great keenness on… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The parastatals are an important driver of the process of Black Economic Empowerment and they have been doing it, and will continue… — 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
One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo.… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
We have been engaging the Government of Swaziland for some time on this issue of the democratization of Swaziland. In particular, I… — 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
We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
