Thabo Mbeki Quotes About Challenges

Quotes about: Challenges

• None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Challenges, Dare

  Thabo Mbeki (1998). “Africa: the time has come : selected speeches”

• I come back to what I had said earlier: the policies might be there but are people benefiting from the policies? You do find that in many instances, though the policies exist, they are not having the necessary impact. That is a particular challenge in local government, because that is where all the services get delivered.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Impact, Government, People

  Source: www.gov.za

• The National Empowerment Fund we established some time back. And one of the challenges was to build a strong enough asset base for it to operate in a credible manner. And we believe that it can.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Strong, Believe, Challenges

  Source: www.gov.za

• I don't know why you should isolate women in this regard. If you have a traditional leader who says 'I am the sole exclusive ruler, I am the autocrat', it will affect everybody in the area, whether they are men or women. The challenge that South Africa faces, and it is not a new challenge, a whole range of African countries have faced this challenge, is that where you have institutional traditional leadership, which in our country is protected by the Constitution, how does that institution function side by side with a democratic system?

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Men, Leader

  Source: www.gov.za

• The problem is not unique; the challenge is not unique to South Africa. Other African countries have faced it. But in our case, we have got to solve the problem. You have got an institutional traditional leadership, which functions in a particular way, in for instance, your communal areas.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Unique, Challenges

  Source: www.gov.za

• At the same time, you have got these traditional councils. And the challenge is how to make sure that they function together [with municipal councils], smoothly, and that is part of what this legislation is trying to address.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Challenges, Trying, Together

  Source: www.gov.za

• 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

  Religious, People, Community

  "Benedict XVI: the Vatican's orthodox insider is new Pope" by Stephen Bates and John Hooper, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2005.

• Your medical documents will say Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome that is AIDS. What that means you have got this challenge of immune deficiency. Alright what causes immune deficiency? HIV. Alright. Is that all that causes immune deficiency? The medical textbooks will say there are other things that cause immune deficiency. There is also genetic immune deficiency that is a different phenomenon.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Mean, Challenges, Different

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

• We have to continue to confront the challenge of corruption within the public service.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Challenges, Corruption, Public Service

  SABC TV2 Interview, oldgov.gcis.gov.za. February 16, 2003.

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