Thabo Mbeki

'Thabo Mbeki' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Mbeki, Thabo Filmography

• Play in Full Screen OnePeople: The Celebration

  2012, role: actor , character name: Former President of South Africa
• Play in Full Screen The Black Moses

  2012, role: actor , character name: Commentator
• Play in Full Screen House of Numbers: Anatomy of an Epidemic

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - President, South Africa
• Play in Full Screen Behind the Rainbow

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Speeches of Nelson Mandela

  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself - Inauguration Attendee

Famous quotes by Thabo Mbeki:

"The government continues to function properly and we continue to work as government,"

"I've said no, ... It's precisely because it is dangerous that we should go."

"The other thing is where they are suffering just as much, if not worse, than we did under apartheid is the fact that they have no way of saying what they feel or how they perceive what is happening because the independent press has all been suppressed."

"Shot itself in both feet."

"It must be the most stupid thing we've ever done."

"We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa,""

"we inherited such a disaster."

"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."

"I had the opportunity to see the country from the air and I could see apartheid, ... I could see where the rich white people live, and next to it where the poor black people live."

"When we say the people shall govern, we mean the people shall govern and what that means is we must register,"

"South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make medicines and drugs as affordable as a possible to what is largely a poor population."

"I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to."

"I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education."

"A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse."

"It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake."

"I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway."

Thabo Mbeki