"I am an African. I owe my being……" — Thabo Mbeki
"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, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land."
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41 Quotes by Thabo Mbeki
Thabo Mbeki has 41 quotes on this site.
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How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An…
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There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard…
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We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival…
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A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable
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For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty
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Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of…
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We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.
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Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not…
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South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
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The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human…
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One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a…
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In Africa you have space...there a profound sense of space here, space and sky
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