You can't abandon people there and say, go and find a job, when you know they are not going to be able to find one, and therefore starve to death. So we have got to address that matter, but we have got to address it systematically. Thabo Mbeki More Quotes by Thabo Mbeki More Quotes From Thabo Mbeki Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world. Thabo Mbeki community religious people South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination. Thabo Mbeki criminals example white We are continuously looking at the question of increasing the capacity of Home Affairs and that is why Home Affairs introduced mobile units, to be able to reach people. The matter of the establishment of the Social Security Agency was to deal with the matter of the more efficient distribution of these grants, the reductions in the levels of corruption and greater sensitivity. You are dealing with vulnerable people, like the elderly, who you needed to find a way of addressing, so that people don't have to be waiting in the sun in the queue, and so on. Thabo Mbeki elderly agency home I must say, with regard to Equatorial Guinea, the Government of Equatorial Guinea, as soon as they had arrested these people, sent a delegation here to say they are going to charge them because they have got sufficient information to say these people were planning to remove the Government of Equatorial Guinea by force. Thabo Mbeki information government people We are very keen to see that nobody gets ill-treated or abused. Thabo Mbeki treated ill What we are saying is that we need to consolidate the capacity to lend support. Because, one of the problems that's mentioned with regard to the Black Empowerment process in the case of small and medium business, is shortage of credit or difficulties of accessing credit. Thabo Mbeki empowerment support black There must be no abuse of people and they did ask that the South Africa Government should give them whatever support they needed to make sure that they have a proper legal process, proper detention, no abuse of people during interrogation and all of that. And so, we agreed. Thabo Mbeki government giving people That it is not enough to catch a criminal and get them convicted and so on, because the victim remains with the consequences of the crime. Something needs to be done. Let's complete that process, interact with civil society about this, so that we will specify what is it that we do in the context of that Charter that would then make this positive impact on people who might have been affected by crime. Thabo Mbeki impact people needs I have absolutely no problem with the press criticising policies and the things that we do, the things that we say. Thabo Mbeki no-problem policy problem Part of the issue around communal land, which became a matter of controversy, is that we are saying that this land must go back to communities. Not chiefs and traditional leaders. Thabo Mbeki issues community land 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. Thabo Mbeki impact running world At the same time, you have got these traditional councils. And the challenge is how to make sure that they function together [with municipal councils], smoothly, and that is part of what this legislation is trying to address. Thabo Mbeki challenges together trying We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with the United States. We will be negotiating agreements with India and China. We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with Mercosur, South America. So there are a number of these trade agreements in the major markets of the world. Thabo Mbeki agreement numbers america 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 negotiation should helping We have a series of regular meetings with South African business. Big business. Black business. Agriculture. As well, of course, with the trade unions. A whole series of meetings like that which engage issues that these South African social partners need to address. Thabo Mbeki agriculture issues black The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country. Thabo Mbeki addresses levels country If you look at government policy generally, what government tries to do in all instances is to make sure that we take care of all elements that might relate to a particular issue. Thabo Mbeki issues government trying 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 investment engagement economy I must say also, that we are not talking just about foreign investors. Thabo Mbeki not-talking investors talking 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 sitting needs
