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. – Thabo Mbeki
I dont imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say Im not an economist therefore I cant take decisions on matters of the economy Im not a soldier I cant take decisions on matters of defence Im not an educationist so I cant take decisions about education. – Thabo Mbeki
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. – Thabo Mbeki
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation. – Jonathan Sacks