South Africa Quotes - Page 13

• If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Effort, Black

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Going out in the field, it's always enlightening to see what's working and what's not and to sit down and talk - I was with young girls in south Africa - understanding why our tools for prevention aren't being adopted, and what way may need to invent to help protect them.

  Bill Gates

  Girl, Understanding, Needs

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

  Danny Glover

  Great Work, Backgrounds, Theatrical

  Source: progressive.org

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• If you look for instance at the automobile industry, part of the reason that you have the expansion of that sector, is precisely because we have gone out to talk to the automobile companies to explain government policy with regard to that sector, to talk to them about the MIDP and things like that. And indeed, it has been a very important part of attracting those investors to put in money in the South African economy and build motorcars in South Africa.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Government, Important, Expansion

  Source: www.gov.za

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• For an investor who is sitting in the United States, and South Africa is very far from the United States, you need to go out to that investor to say, these are the possibilities in this particular sector.

  Thabo Mbeki

  United States, Needs, Sitting

  Source: www.gov.za

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

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Attention, Pay

  Source: www.gov.za

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• There is a tendency just to talk about foreign investors. Over 80 per cent of new investment in the South African economy is South African and therefore the engagement of the South African investor is also a critical part of this process.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Engagement, Investment, Economy

  Source: www.gov.za

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• I should also say that apart from the negotiations that are taking place within the WTO, we are ourselves involved in all manner of bilateral negotiations, or, if they are not bilateral, with the South African Customs Union and the European Union. All the member countries of the European Union have now ratified the agreement that we have with the EU and that opens up the EU market in various ways.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Agreement, Way

  Source: www.gov.za

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• While the WTO negotiations will continue, there are other trade negotiations of a bilateral nature, which among other things, should help to open up these markets for South African products.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Helping, Negotiation, Should

  Source: www.gov.za

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• South Africa now needs skilled and educated people to say 'How do we manage and develop this democratic country?'

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, People, Needs

  "Tregernomics Interview with President Thabo Mbeki". Interview with Adam Treger, www.mbeki.org. October 31, 2016.

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• I can still go grocery shopping and not get mobbed. But when I was in South Africa this summer, I had people asking for autographs, and that scared me.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Summer, Shopping, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Water, Black

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.

  Adam Hochschild

  Country, Example, Paper

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There is a section of our population in South Africa that you can't expect to get integrated in the economy of its own. These are people without skills and that will include young people who might very well have matric certificates, but don't have the skills to be absorbed in the economy. So we need to target people like those in a special way, in a focused way so that they have the skills and the capacity to participate in the economy. That requires special programmes.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Skills, People, Special

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• The public service needs lots of people, South Africa generally, needs lots of people.

  Thabo Mbeki

  People, Needs, Public Service

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• I think anybody who knows anything about South Africa and the South African economy would know that one of the big constraints to growth and development is skills shortages. So all of us, need to come at this thing as vigorously as is possible and, of course, the private sector has the capacity to take it on board.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Skills, Growth

  SABC TV2 Interview, oldgov.gcis.gov.za. February 16, 2003.

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• Your developed countries are taking teachers from South Africa, they are taking nurses, because people are better paid where they are going.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Teacher, Nurse

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• Doing a movie in Tel Aviv or London or South Africa or Mexico. It's this great second act to my career, and it's a real good time.

  Robert Englund

  Real, Careers, Mexico

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was extremely frustrated, almost at the point of giving up on coming up with a name for the project (because I'm awful at it), when I decided to play the 'put a pen somewhere on a map with your eyes closed' game with South Africa. About the 5th try was St. Lucia in South Africa, which coincidentally also happens to be an idyllic sub-tropical seaside resort town. The name seemed to fit with the mood of the music, and so after a while it just stuck.

  St. Lucia

  Giving Up, Eye, Games

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• Certainly we must combine forces . South African troops are within the country.We raised this matter with Mrs [Margaret] Thatcher and Lord [Peter] Carrington when we met them and we wanted to get from them a definite commitment that they were going to get the South African troops out.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Commitment, Troops

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• My family still lives over there [ in South Africa] .I miss them terribly. I would say that most of my life over there was probably very similar to the sort of life someone would experience growing up somewhere like Australia or in the US.

  St. Lucia

  Growing Up, Australia, Missing

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• When I was 10 I went to the Drakensberg Boys Choir School, which is this idyllic Harry Potter-esque music boarding school in the mountains in South Africa, and that's when everything started to change for me and I realised that music is my thing.

  St. Lucia

  School, Boys, Mountain

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• Politically, [Albert Camus] was in favour of a federation, and effectively he considered that like South Africa today (or as they are trying to do), there should be a mixed population with equal rights, the same rights for the Arab and the French populations, as well as all the other races living there.

  Catherine Camus

  Rights, Race, Trying

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• One of the issues that I have raised in that context is our transport system, road, rail and ports. We have raised this before, that the South African economy has grown at a rate that has overtaken the capacity of the transport system. And therefore, we have said that it is necessary to expand our capacity in the ports.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Issues, Economy, Said

  Source: www.gov.za

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• I don't think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don't think the facts would substantiate that argument.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Would Be, Weight

  Source: www.gov.za

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