Thabo Mbeki Quotes About Apartheid

Quotes about: Apartheid

• 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

  Soccer, Capes, May

• South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Black And White, Apartheid, South

  Thabo Mbeki, Cyril Ramaphosa (1995). “Speech of Deputy President, Thabo Mbeki, at the ANC National Constitutional Conference, March 31 to April 2, 1995, World Trade Centre”

• The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of apartheid. Many have made the observation that it is very difficult to find anyone in SA who ever supported apartheid because everyone was opposed, it was against our will and so on.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Issues, Racism, People

  Interview with Lionel Barber, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

• South Africa has faced many problems in the past. You would understand those problems if you understood the history of the struggle to get rid of Apartheid and the struggle to establish democracy.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Struggle, Past, Democracy

  "Tregernomics Interview with President Thabo Mbeki". Interview with Adam Treger, www.mbeki.org. October 31, 2016.

• The reason I joined the struggle against Apartheid was because you had this system of oppression, which affected everybody who was black. Whether you were old or young, man or woman, in a village or a town, it didn't matter.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Struggle, Men, Black

  Source: www.tregernomics.com

• If we don't move forward with regard to creating a non-racial society in South Africa and we allow this legacy of apartheid to persist, these divisions between black and white in wealth and income and so on, in the future you would indeed have an ugly upheaval.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Moving, Black And White, Creating

  Source: www.nelsonmandela.org

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