Thabo Mbeki Quotes

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• How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we…
• There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard of.
• We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest
• A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable
• For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty
• Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of diseases resulting from acquired immune…
• We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.
• Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of…
• South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
• The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no…
• One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed…
• In Africa you have space...there a profound sense of space here, space and sky
• As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.
• Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to…
• If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country.
• I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees,…
• As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building…
• None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.
• Science is always inquiring.
• If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience…

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