Thabo Mbeki
Thabo Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbekiis a South African politician who served nine years as the second post-apartheid President of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008. On 20 September 2008, with about nine months left in his second term, Mbeki announced his resignation after being recalled by the National Executive Committee of the ANC, following a conclusion by judge C. R. Nicholson of improper interference in the National Prosecuting Authority, including the prosecution of Jacob Zuma for corruption. On...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 June 1942
The reports from the scientific world are that there is a very severe and escalating impact of HIV and AIDS in South Africa, and from what I have read, it is assuming particular, distinct characteristics, which, for instance, were atypical of how this phenomenon had developed in the States. This meant that we must look at what it is that results in all of this, specific to our country.
Your medical documents will say: acquired immune deficiency syndrome, that is AIDS, which means that you have got this challenge of immune deficiency. All right, what causes immune deficiency? HIV? All right, is that all that causes immune deficiency? And your medical textbooks would say no, there are other things that will cause acquired immune deficiency. There is also a genetic immune deficiency, a different phenomenon.
Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of diseases resulting from acquired immune deficiency.
I must say that for us this represents one of the most positive developments in a global situation that otherwise seems to be dominated by many negative developments,
No longer will we be an object of fascination for others, who would consider us a strange and an estranged segment of humanity.
The instability has gone on for far too long. The levels of poverty and conflict are increasing, and if you add to that a fraudulent election, it has to be avoided,
There is no substance to the allegations that there is any hesitation on the part of our government to confront the challenge of HIV-AIDS,
The government continues to function properly and we continue to work as government,
We want a peaceful resolution. We would not want to see any kind of war in the Middle East because it would be disastrous for Africa.
Billions would rebel in response to what they consider legitimate right of the poor that has been unjustly deferred by the rich (nations).
Throwing money at African governments is not the answer,
Everybody in the region is interested to assist in the process of finding a solution to that conflict,
This intervention shows that it's possible to go into the least-developed areas -- to the rural people -- and bring them into the modern era.
And therefore it's a matter that we discussed, and I am quite sure that the Zimbabwe government will take the necessary steps to have that matter addressed,