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

- Thabo Mbeki

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 …

- Thabo Mbeki

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

- Thabo Mbeki

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 …

- Thabo Mbeki

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…

- Thabo Mbeki

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…

- Thabo Mbeki

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.

- Thabo Mbeki

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.

- Thabo Mbeki

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

- Thabo Mbeki