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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.
South Africa now needs skilled and educated people to say 'How do we manage and develop this democratic country?'
Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out.
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty
I have absolutely no problem with the press criticising policies and the things that we do, the things that we say.
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.
It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.
Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down.
The fact is that some of the mice [tested on with AZT] have contracted cancer. It attacks bone marrow. It is very toxic.
Employers must make far-reaching changes to employment terms and conditions for women: Equal pay for equal, decent work.
When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy.
I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong.
The life of the President's First Lady would not have been for me. And I don't know how I would have been as a housewife.
As I said, the matter of the Pan African Parliament was raised with us by other African countries who said we should host.
Procurement policies of all of the major parastatals, it is a very important element of that processes that will continue.
I am a living symbol of the white man's fear. I never realized how deeply embedded this fear is until I came to Brandfort.
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest
We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong.
The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
We need to increase the capacity; we need to improve performance so that we are more effective at lending that kind of support.
You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.
Raw garlic and a skin of the lemon - not only do they give you a beautiful face and skin but they also protect you from disease.
In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.
As much as the South African racist regime is prepared to fight to the last man, so are we determined to fight to the bitter end.
I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.
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.
The A.N.C. is a national movement. We all - Communists and non-Communists alike - want a nonracial, democratic, united South Africa.
My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as brothers and sisters.
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care.
There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.
I do not believe that the majority of men in the world would like to hurt women, but they can be very complacent, and that is just as bad.
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 government can become so elitist and concentrate on elitist interests. To help the government, you must constantly hold its attention.
When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
The principal investors in the South African economy are South Africans. And this is something, I think, we should really pay attention to.
AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
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.
Your developed countries are taking teachers from South Africa, they are taking nurses, because people are better paid where they are going.
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.
South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.
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.
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.
Those communal areas have got elected municipalities, which have got to do their work as, as fully, democratically elected municipal councils.