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South African Politician

Thabo Mbeki is a prominent South African politician who served as the President of South Africa from 1999 to 2008. He dedicated his political career to promoting democracy and economic development in South Africa and actively participated in African continental political affairs.

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Famous Thabo Mbeki Quotes

“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.”

People Matter Political Process Democratic Dialogue Republic Congo Rwanda Uganda Democratic Republic Political Dialogue

Book:Africa Define Yourself

Source: Africa Define Yourself

“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.”

Knows May Courses Hours Week Crime Months Models Direct Murder Presses Western Committed Soccer Statistics Imitation Apartheid Capes

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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.”

Years Long Party Heard Election Lists Voting

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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”

Should Humans Accepting Vision Principles Future Survival Bases Savages Human Society Sustainable Development Survival Of The Fittest

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“A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable”

Humans Wealth Vision Poverty Sea Future Islands Human Society Sustainable Development

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“For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty”

Firsts Humans Vision Poverty Future Resources First Time Capacity Human History Sustainable Development

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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.”

Doe Causes Groups Disease Aids Viruses Hiv Immune Deficiency Syndromes

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“We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.”

Should Turns Sun Shining Weather Sun Shines Despondent

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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.”

People Needs Trying Adversity Resilience Defeated Tested Gloom Despondency Trying Times

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“South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.”

White Example South Criminals Evolve Minorities South Africa Domination Pernicious Practise

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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.”

Humans Human Beings Poor Possibility Offers Messages Standards Communicate Decent Tragic Prey No Hope Standards Of Living

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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”

People Facts Views Clear Disturbing Credentials Disturbing Things

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“In Africa you have space...there a profound sense of space here, space and sky”

Space Sky Profound

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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.”

Ifs Needs Loses Common Failing Share Recognition Continents

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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.”

People Years Lasts Waiting Rescue Liberators

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“If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country.”

Ifs Said Country Use Sex Safe Safety Spread Aids Condom

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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.”

Faces Tree Sea Land Flower Mountain Rivers Seasons Hills Desert Native Valleys Native Land Seasons Change

Book:Africa: the time has come : selected speeches

Source: Africa: the time has come : selected speeches

“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 a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africa’s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?”

“None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.”

Challenges Dare

Book:Africa: the time has come : selected speeches

Source: Africa: the time has come : selected speeches

About the Author

Born: June 18, 1942
Known for: South African Politician
Quotes: 169

Books & Sources

Africa Define YourselfRelated source material

Africa: the time has come : selected speechesRelated source material

Speech of Deputy President, Thabo Mbeki, at the ANC National Constitutional Conference, March 31 to April 2, 1995, World Trade CentreRelated source material

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