Thabo Mbeki Quotes

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

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• Science is always inquiring.

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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.

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  Tags in Must, Political

• 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.

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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!

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• Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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  Tags in Oppression, Colonial, Road, Struggle

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

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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.

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  Tags in Communicate, Another, Prey

• 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.

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  Tags in Respond, Catastrophe, Critical

• 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.

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

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  Tags in Criminal, Africa, Pernicious, Practise, Example

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

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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.

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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.

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  Tags in Banned, Heretics, Point, View

• 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.

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  Tags in Dispense, Warned, Ahead, Conscience

• 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.

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Thabo Mbeki (27)

Birth:	18th June, 1942
Nationality:	South African
Profession:	Politician, President

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