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. 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.
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 times. Thabo Mbeki
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 times.
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 come and rescue you. Thabo Mbeki
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 come and rescue you.
We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines. Thabo Mbeki
We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.
As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent. Thabo Mbeki
As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.
When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow! Thabo Mbeki
When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!
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 deficiency. Thabo Mbeki
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 deficiency.
A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable Thabo Mbeki
A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable
None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan. Thabo Mbeki
None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.
I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education. Thabo Mbeki
I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village. Thabo Mbeki
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
Read a textbook. It will tell you. These are the things for instance on the African continent that will contribute to immune deficiency, various tropical diseases because of poor infrastructure, general levels of poverty don’t get treated. Syphilis untreated or not properly treated, which as it happens is a big problem as I hear, gets treated, the symptoms disappear but in fact… it … that impacts on the immune system. You’ve got to deal with these things. Thabo Mbeki
Read a textbook. It will tell you. These are the things for instance on the African continent that will contribute to immune deficiency, various tropical diseases because of poor infrastructure, general levels of poverty don’t get treated. Syphilis untreated or not properly treated, which as it happens is a big problem as I hear, gets treated, the symptoms disappear but in fact… it … that impacts on the immune system. You’ve got to deal with these things.
The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do. Thabo Mbeki
The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest Thabo Mbeki
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest
You cannot just depend on the market, because the market will say: China needs oil; China needs coal; China needs whatever, and Africa has got all these things in abundance. And we go there and get them, and the more we develop the Chinese economy, the larger the manufacturing is, the more we need global markets - sell it to the Africans which indeed might very well destroy whatever infant industries are trying to develop on the continent. That is what the market would do. Thabo Mbeki
You cannot just depend on the market, because the market will say: China needs oil; China needs coal; China needs whatever, and Africa has got all these things in abundance. And we go there and get them, and the more we develop the Chinese economy, the larger the manufacturing is, the more we need global markets - sell it to the Africans which indeed might very well destroy whatever infant industries are trying to develop on the continent. That is what the market would do.
I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. Thabo Mbeki
I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.
Born: June 18, 1942
Profession: South African Politician
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