Thabo Mbeki Messages

A modern economy and society require skilled people, so you need to train them.

We would continue to handle our relations with the rest of the Continent with that kind of sensitivity.

We are very keen to see that nobody gets ill-treated or abused.

In Africa you have space...there a profound sense of space here, space and sky

If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country.

The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.

The principal investors in the South African economy are South Africans. And this is something, I think, we should really pay attention to.

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

As I said, the matter of the Pan African Parliament was raised with us by other African countries who said we should host.

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.