“Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.”
Thabo Mbeki“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. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.”
Thabo Mbeki“Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.”
Thabo Mbeki“Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked—not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt he had outstayed his welcome by seeking a third term as party president. The ANC appears to have set itself against that deathtrap of African democracy: the ruler for life.”
Mark Gevisser