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We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa. -- Thabo Mbeki
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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
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Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent! -- Thabo Mbeki
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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. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing. -- Thabo Mbeki
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It is critically important that Iran should not develop nuclear weapons. And that the necessary interventions need to be made by the International Atomic Energy Agency to ensure that, indeed, that does not happen, in the context of any nuclear generation of power or research or whatever, in Iran. -- Thabo Mbeki
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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
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It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs. -- Thabo Mbeki
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It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake. -- Thabo Mbeki
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China surely must be interested in a more stable, non-antagonistic relationship with the African continent precisely because of its own needs and therefore has to say: in our own interest, as China, it is necessary that we participate in the process of development of the African continent. -- Thabo Mbeki
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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 of. -- Thabo Mbeki
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It is quite easy to understand what China would need from the African continent with regard to its own economy. It will be raw materials, oil, and a market for manufactured goods. It is not difficult to understand that, and it is perfectly legitimate, there is nothing wrong with that. -- Thabo Mbeki
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For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty -- Thabo Mbeki
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It is difficult to discuss history, and more difficult to talk about now, today, even simple things. -- Thabo Mbeki
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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
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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 possibility to attain a decent standard of living. -- Thabo Mbeki
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Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say - nothing can stop us now! -- Thabo Mbeki
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The King had been a good friend of the government and the people of South Africa and we all mourn his passing with our brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia. -- Thabo Mbeki
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Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression. -- Thabo Mbeki
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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 may be, and let's see what the outcome is, which is why we are having this International panel which we are all talking about. -- Thabo Mbeki
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South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white. -- Thabo Mbeki
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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
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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 by people whose scientific credentials you can't question. -- Thabo Mbeki
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If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country. -- Thabo Mbeki
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Her work sought to challenge all of us critically to reflect on the things we find comfort in believing without question. -- Thabo Mbeki
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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
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We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines. -- Thabo Mbeki
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A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable -- Thabo Mbeki
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Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world. -- Thabo Mbeki
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We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largely a poor population. -- Thabo Mbeki
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As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent. -- Thabo Mbeki
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It is also important to respect the fact that Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), which Treaty spells out the rights and obligations of signatories to the Treaty, and therefore that we cannot deny Iran the rights due to it as a signatory of the NPT. -- Thabo Mbeki
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We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities. -- Thabo Mbeki
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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 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. -- Thabo Mbeki
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A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse. -- Thabo Mbeki
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Science is always inquiring. -- Thabo Mbeki
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One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future. -- Thabo Mbeki
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I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway. -- Thabo Mbeki
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That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account. -- Thabo Mbeki
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As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade. -- Thabo Mbeki
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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 around the world which says this drug has these negative effects. -- Thabo Mbeki
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Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious. -- Thabo Mbeki
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Those who complete the course will do so only because they do not, as fatigue sets in, convince themselves that the road ahead is still too long, the inclines too steep, the loneliness impossible to bear and the prize itself of doubtful value. -- Thabo Mbeki
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I am sure it would not be in the long-term interest of China, which would continue to depend on these African resources for a very long time, to see the emergence of any sense of hostility, animosity, tension between itself and the African continent. -- Thabo Mbeki
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The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent. -- Thabo Mbeki
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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
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None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan. -- Thabo Mbeki
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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
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South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination. -- Thabo Mbeki
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The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly. -- Thabo Mbeki
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I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to. -- Thabo Mbeki
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In Africa you have space ... there a profound sense of space here, space and sky -- Thabo Mbeki
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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 diseases resulting from acquired immune deficiency. -- Thabo Mbeki