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 these things in abundance. And we go there and get them, and the more we develop the Chinese economy, the larger the manufacturing is, the more we need global markets - sell it to the Africans which indeed might very well destroy whatever infant industries are trying to develop on the continent. That is what the market would do.
We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines. - Thabo Mbeki
We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.
- Thabo Mbeki
If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues. - Thabo Mbeki
If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.
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
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.
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
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 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
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 …
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
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…
As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent. - Thabo Mbeki
As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.
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
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…
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
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.
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