We can't treat the matter of black economic empowerment as just the redistribution of existing wealth. It really has to focus on new investment, on g….

Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of c….

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

If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues..

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, ….

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

I think you're a much happier person if you say 'Even if I get involved in politics, I'm only doing so in order to serve the people'. You will sleep ….

Read a textbook. It will tell you. These are the things for instance on the African continent that will contribute to immune deficiency, various trop….

The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do..

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 ….

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….

A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them..

You cannot just depend on the market, because the market will say: China needs oil; China needs coal; China needs whatever, and Africa has got all th….

Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best….

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….

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..

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm no….

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our vil….

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

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….

As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent..