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• 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

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• You can say to this unemployed family, people are indigent, that they must pay for water and this and that and refuse removal and so on. They have no money. We may very well say that, but does the municipality have the capacity to do it? So, that's why we said that we need to have a thorough look at the functioning of local government and that will include the financing. So that this poor person does indeed access that water.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Government, Water, People

  Source: www.gov.za

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• 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.

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• I think anybody who knows anything about South Africa and the South African economy would know that one of the big constraints to growth and development is skills shortages. So all of us, need to come at this thing as vigorously as is possible and, of course, the private sector has the capacity to take it on board.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Skills, Growth

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

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• I am quite convinced that we need to increase the resources that go to municipalities if we want the municipalities to do the things the Constitution and the law say they must do. It can't be avoided.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Law, Needs, Want

  Source: www.gov.za

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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

  Future, Vision, Poverty

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• Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

  Thabo Mbeki

  Dark, Swag, Continents

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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

  School, Views, People

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• There is a section of our population in South Africa that you can't expect to get integrated in the economy of its own. These are people without skills and that will include young people who might very well have matric certificates, but don't have the skills to be absorbed in the economy. So we need to target people like those in a special way, in a focused way so that they have the skills and the capacity to participate in the economy. That requires special programmes.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Skills, People, Special

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• 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?

  Thabo Mbeki

  Hunger Poverty, People, President

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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

  Country, Sex, Safety

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• The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Responsibility, Government, Zimbabwe

  Thabo Mbeki (2002). “Africa Define Yourself”

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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

  Soccer, Capes, May

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• I don't suppose I would describe myself as a showman.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Describe Myself

  Source: www.nelsonmandela.org

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• 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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• It is difficult to discuss... history.. it is more difficult to talk about today.. simple things…

  Thabo Mbeki

  Simple, Today, Difficult

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

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• I think that part of the problem that arose with that legislation, is that there probably wasn't sufficient information - probably there was misinformation. I am not sure that they have looked at the legislation.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Information, Problem

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The principal investors in the South African economy are South Africans. And this is something, I think, we should really pay attention to.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Attention, Pay

  Source: www.gov.za

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• This is community land that belongs to particular clans, and therefore, it must go back and its administration and the determination as to what to do, must rest in the hand of the communities. That is why you have these committees, among whose members, of course, they will be traditional leaders. You will have these collectives, which must then deal with the land, the issue of communal rights.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Determination, Issues, Rights

  Source: www.gov.za

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• You might indeed be able to provide this money that people need to start a business, but can they run a business? This new consolidated agency [National Empowerment Fund] focuses on that matter of preparing people so that they can run business successfully.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Running, Agency, People

  Source: www.gov.za

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• There must be public servants who are working regularly among the people.

  Thabo Mbeki

  People, Servant, Public Servants

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

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• It is quite easy to understand what China would need from the African continent with regards to its own economy, raw materials, oil and a market for manufactured goods. As I say it is not difficulty to understand and perfectly legitimate. There is nothing wrong with that.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Oil, Needs, Raw Materials

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

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• 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”

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• Historically during the years of the White minority regimes, the State, the national Government held this land in trust for these communities. We said, but no, why should we do that ( return the land to the communities). We didn't say return the land to particular traditional leaders, but to the communities.

  Thabo Mbeki

  White, Government, Years

  Source: www.gov.za

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• As I said, the matter of the Pan African Parliament was raised with us by other African countries who said we should host.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Matter, Host

  Source: www.gov.za

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