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Science is always inquiring.
None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.
I don't suppose I would describe myself as a showman.
Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!
South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.
We are very keen to see that nobody gets ill-treated or abused.
I must say also, that we are not talking just about foreign investors.
We were asked to host the Pan African Parliament and we agreed to this.
A democratic government in South Africa is not a threat to white people.
There must be public servants who are working regularly among the people.
In Africa you have space...there a profound sense of space here, space and sky
A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them.
If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.
The public service needs lots of people, South Africa generally, needs lots of people.
We have to continue to confront the challenge of corruption within the public service.
You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents.
We are improving the entirety of the system. You have got to make the grants available.
If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country.
The matter of who governs Zimbabwe is a matter that is in the hands of the people of Zimbabwe.
It is difficult to discuss... history.. it is more difficult to talk about today.. simple things…
Really, a critical matter in the public service is radically to improve the quality of management.
Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.
Clearly, we are very, very concerned about the situation, for instance, that has been going on in Gaza.
We would continue to handle our relations with the rest of the Continent with that kind of sensitivity.
There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard of.
The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.
A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable
The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.
South Africa now needs skilled and educated people to say 'How do we manage and develop this democratic country?'
I have absolutely no problem with the press criticising policies and the things that we do, the things that we say.
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty
As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.
We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.
Procurement policies of all of the major parastatals, it is a very important element of that processes that will continue.
As I said, the matter of the Pan African Parliament was raised with us by other African countries who said we should host.
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest
We need to increase the capacity; we need to improve performance so that we are more effective at lending that kind of support.
South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
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.
Certainly the Government has tried to handle the matter of our relations with the rest of the Continent in a very sensitive manner.
I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.
The principal investors in the South African economy are South Africans. And this is something, I think, we should really pay attention to.
Your developed countries are taking teachers from South Africa, they are taking nurses, because people are better paid where they are going.
Of course we run a very open economy, and therefore what happens in the rest of the world, in economic terms, obviously has an impact on us.
Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.
The parastatals are an important driver of the process of Black Economic Empowerment and they have been doing it, and will continue to do it.
We very constantly run this campaign to encourage people to go and get Identity Documents, to register, and so on. We'll continue to do that.
Those communal areas have got elected municipalities, which have got to do their work as, as fully, democratically elected municipal councils.
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.
The engagements with the International Investment Council have developed in a very interesting way. It is, again, the point I raised at the beginning.