"How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or……" — Thabo Mbeki
"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 are not allowed to know for sure. In close and direct imitation of his apartheid models, Selebi ensures that no statistics about crime may be published regularly in the press."
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Thabo Mbeki
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41 Quotes by Thabo Mbeki
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