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.
From Thabo Mbeki
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.
It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.
South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.
South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.
Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!
When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!
As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.
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.
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