List of Thabo Mbeki Quotes

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

As A Consequence Of The Victories We Have Registered During Our First Ten Years Of Freedom, We Have Laid A Firm Foundation For The New Advances We Must And Will Make During The Next Decade.

The King Had Been A Good Friend Of The Government And The People Of South Africa And We All Mourn His Passing With Our Brothers And Sisters In Saudi Arabia.

A Matter That Seems To Be Very Clear In Terms Of The Alternative View, Is What Do You Expect To Happen In Africa With Regard To Immune Systems, Where People Are Poor, Subject To Repeat Infections And All Of That. Surely You Would Expect Their Immune Systems To Collapse.

The Reports From The Scientific World Are That, There Is Very Sadly An Escalating Impact Of Hiv And Aids In South Africa. And It’s From What I Have Read Assuming Distinct Characteristics Which Were Atypical Of How This Phenomenon Had Developed In The States And Therefore This Meant That We Look At What It Is That Results In All Of This, Specific To Our Country.

The Public Service Needs Lots Of People, South Africa Generally, Needs Lots Of People.

Your Developed Countries Are Taking Teachers From South Africa, They Are Taking Nurses, Because People Are Better Paid Where They Are Going.

With Me, As A Town Clerk Or City Manager, There Are Certain Things That I'm Supposed To Do - If I Don't Do Them, Then I Don't Deserve To Continue In This Post.

I Think The Critical Point, Really, Is That We Need To Focus Black Economic Empowerment More On The Creation Of New Wealth Rather Than On These Big Deals That Have Been Characteristic Of This Process In The Past, Of People Going To Banks, Borrowing A Lot Of Money, Buying This And When The Shares Don't Perform Very Well, The Shares Go Back To The Banks, Because There's Other People Who Own This Anyway. I Think We Need To Re-focus It So That It Really Does Impact On Growth, New Investment, New Employment And A General, Better Spread Of Wealth In South Africa.

Really, A Critical Matter In The Public Service Is Radically To Improve The Quality Of Management.

There Are Black Companies That Are Very Active In The Economy, That Are Growing And Not On The Basis Of Mergers And Acquisitions, But Because Of Putting New Money Into Their Particular Companies And, Therefore, Their Particular Sectors. Indeed, If They Didn't Do That, They Would Collapse As Companies.

There Are Established Processes Of Consultation Between The Government, The Parastatals And The Trade Unions, Which Have Worked In The Past. And I Don't See Any Particular Reason Why They Shouldn't Work.