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Trevor Manuel
Information about this person was last updated on Saturday, February 11, 2012.
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[-told]: Now you couldn't ask for a clearer statement than that,
pambazuka 09-FEB-12
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[-said]: The mining sector is so fundamentally important as a platform to construct the [upliftment] transition that we can't be able to take this idea of nationalisation forward,
pambazuka 09-FEB-12
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[-said]: The challenge before us is to reverse this trend, and in reversing this trend we have to plan to boost investment and employment in mining by taking account of five critical issues,
mg 08-FEB-12
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[ said]: This is what's going to drive the changes. We fervently believe that the country is capable of reaching much higher levels of output in mining,
mg 08-FEB-12
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[-said]: The mining sector is so fundamentally important as a platform to construct the [upliftment] transition that we can't be able to take this idea of nationalisation forward.
mg 08-FEB-12
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[said:]: Now you couldn't ask for a clearer statement than that.
thetimes 08-FEB-12
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[ said]: The sense is there's sufficient people who know that it's [the fund] a rational decision and would have to live with themselves for being silly and pernicious about something that actually doesn't merit it,
mmegi 13-DEC-11
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[-said]: It isn't a naked opposition, it's a filibustering ... it's about some word here or there,
mmegi 13-DEC-11
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[ said]: The process is complex, there is no room for error,
7thspace 12-DEC-11
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[ said]: Then we must look at taxing the bunkers (maritime and aviation industries). And, of course, private sector funding is necessary,
iol 09-DEC-11
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[said:]: If you look at the world’s financial transactions, and we attach a 0.1 percent tax on equities and a 0.2 percent tax on bonds traded, the world can raise between $100bn and $250bn per annum.
iol 09-DEC-11
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[ said]: Then we wouldn’t need any of those other things – just that,
iol 09-DEC-11
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[ said]: There is no going back on it,
iol 09-DEC-11
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[ said]: When you use resources like water and you don't price it in the equation, it's indicative of market failure,
mg 08-DEC-11
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[-told]: The Inga Dam has potential to provide the whole of Africa with power. The river is always in full flow and it is never known to dry (up).
iol 06-DEC-11
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[-said]: It has a great potential to create investments through agriculture, hydroelectric power and solar energy. The only thing that is missing is the key to unlock this.
iol 06-DEC-11
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[ said]: As a country that is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, this appointment is significant for South Africa for securing the funds needed to plan our development trajectory in a way that is responsive to climate change,
7thspace 01-DEC-11
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[ said]: This access, combined with our rich biodiversity and extensive mineral wealth, will allow South Africa to balance investment in optimal development futures with the appropriate allocation of resources to environmental programmes,
7thspace 01-DEC-11
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[-said]: A role to play
mg 29-NOV-11
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[-said]: Fedusa is committed to social dialogue and we think the country needs an open dialogue,
mg 29-NOV-11
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[-added]: Many of these decisions need to be taken in the short term and can't be left. Bad values and bad systems entrench themselves and ossify and become the enemy of transformation,
mg 21-NOV-11
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[-said]: Free markets don't exist anywhere except in some strange textbooks. The situation in the United States that makes the current economic arrangement unworkable is the fact the wealthy don't have to pay tax effectively. When Warren Buffett says his secretary pays more tax than he does -- you have a failed system,
mg 21-NOV-11
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[-said]: Our generation -- the ones who faced each other across the barrel of a gun -- we were the people who brought the country out of the abyss; it is still fresh enough in our minds to be able to work in the same kind of circumstances and bring people together again. It's not empathy or sympathy -- it's about participation. That's the goal -- participation in nation building,
mg 21-NOV-11
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[ said]: We've never masked the fact that corruption is a fundamentally challenging issue in South Africa. We have examined what has gone wrong, in the diagnostic report of the NDP and the proposals in dealing with the change are in the NDP. We need to ensure speedy justice through dedicated investigation and prosecution teams to ensure we can put people away for corruption. The sooner this happens the sooner they will realise corruption does not pay, and others will realise that crime does not pay,
mg 21-NOV-11
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[-told]: The message coming out of everything we have seen over the past year in the Arab Spring, people on the streets in Europe, the Occupy Wall Street movement and the overall failure of systems of the past, is that that model is broken. We need something that deals with the needs of people and the economy must serve the interests of the masses ... and at the moment the market doesn't provide for that,
mg 21-NOV-11
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[-added]: So, if you believe that is a free market, you believe in tooth fairies and Easter bunnies. Markets are good at doing some things but they are not very good at providing public services and remedying the inherent faults in the markets. This is the reason you need a strong active government that can respond to the needs of citizens,
mg 21-NOV-11
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[-said]: Before we see money as an obstacle, let's rather examine other alternatives,
news24 18-NOV-11
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[-said]: You never take high office if you value your privacy, which is something you never get back.
news24 18-NOV-11
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[-added that]: Here we have to change the parameters. If the teachers aren't in class on time to teach, that's a problem - so fix it. Those teachers are paid already.
news24 18-NOV-11
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[-added]: broad support and active championing throughout society
sligochampion 17-NOV-11
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[-noted that]: If you don't know enough to transmit this to an 8-year-old, what chance in life does that child have?
news24 16-NOV-11
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[-said]: If you look at the class that passed Matric in 2010, there were just under 1.4 million learners who enrolled in grade one in January 1999,
news24 16-NOV-11
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[-wrote]: At the core of this plan is a focus on capabilities; the capabilities of people and our country and of creating the opportunities for both,
news 14-NOV-11
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[ said]: While the state can build schools, we need communities to ensure that the schools work properly and that children study hard. Our paradigm is one where communities are active in their own development,
7thspace 14-NOV-11
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[-said]: To do all of this and many of the other things that I've detailed in the plan, we need stronger leadership both in government and from communities,
allafrica 12-NOV-11
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[-told]: If we disaggregate this ratio, we will establish that the middle classes are in way above 100% -- all of next year's earnings are already spent,
mg 10-NOV-11
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[-says]: The president invited the planning commission to take an independent and critical view of South Africa and use this to produce a vision and plan focused on the detail of a much better quality of life for all by 2030,
thetimes 08-NOV-11
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[ says]: raised its head again
thetimes 08-NOV-11
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[-says]: We must find a way of ensuring the evenness of public service,
allafrica 07-NOV-11
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[-said]: >YouTube, being emailed and being promoted on the social media came from. Hopefully this will spark an interest to find out more among those who see it,
allafrica 07-NOV-11
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[said:]: Either the marketing in South Africa is so powerful that we cannot help ourselves, or we try to keep up with the Kunenes ...
thetimes 06-NOV-11
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[added:]: When we see the fancy cars and expensive designer-label clothing, visit the extraordinarily opulent houses, or attend the over-the-top parties, weddings or funerals, [we should ask] whether we are participating in marking the social progress of those who did the spending or whether this is an excursion into fantasy land?
thetimes 06-NOV-11
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[-said]: We've spent money we haven't earned yet and we've spent it on goods that we don't need. We're trying to keep up with the Kunenes,
allafrica 04-NOV-11
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[-said]: What we will earn next year is already spent.
mg 03-NOV-11
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[ said]: They are in trouble,
mg 03-NOV-11
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[ said]: There is no cushion,
mg 03-NOV-11
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[-said]: especially in that we know we have our rich mineral resources
iol 27-OCT-11
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[-said]: The difficulty with this is that it is very addictive,
iol 30-SEP-11
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[-said]: a measure of incredulity
iol 30-SEP-11
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[-said]: By early next week we will be able to distil a clear set of issues,
iol 30-SEP-11
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[-said]: I have learnt to say Hail Mary,
iol 30-SEP-11
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[-said that]: They are my favourite.
iol 30-SEP-11
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[-said]: Good workers, such as we aim to be in the service of our people, need the best and sharpest tools, and there is simply no other way to acquire this than through conducting a detailed census,
thetimes 20-SEP-11
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[-said]: We need to develop radically new approaches to how legislatures are involved in the measurement of progress - the instruments available are important, but woefully inadequate,
news24 05-SEP-11
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[-said]: In most instances, such information that is available tends to relate to whether money was spent as appropriated, and not the changes effected with the resource,
news24 05-SEP-11
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[ said]: But if you pass like that, there is very little you can do in society,
7thspace 05-SEP-11
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[ said]: From the side of Statistics South Africa this is a way of saying that we are very confident that you are going to be in New Zealand preparing for the semifinal on the ninth,
thetimes 30-AUG-11
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[-told]: In 2030 I will be too, too old to be doing what I'm doing but you won't,
news24 25-AUG-11
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[-asked]: As a society what are the things we want to change?
news24 25-AUG-11
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[ said]: We will be misleading our country if we don't do it truthfully,
7thspace 22-AUG-11
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[ said]: We want to remove every obstacle to security,
7thspace 22-AUG-11
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[ admitted]: There are also areas that we are not sure how we will deal with going forward,
7thspace 22-JUL-11
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[ said]: We haven't announced any plans and there are going to be different issues in different parts of the country, and I think that we need to be sensitive to those matters as we go forward,
7thspace 22-JUL-11
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[-said]: .
MailGuardian 22-JUL-11
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[ admitted]: Part of what we are doing is gathering evidence. I think we approach the country and say this is a first stab at the diagnostic, it may be inadequate,
7thspace 22-JUL-11
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[ added]: We will put the plan forward on 11 November and it will deal with all of these issues - some in more detail than the others, but the tools that we used are the tools that all South Africans will use to address these challenges,
7thspace 19-JUL-11
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[-said]: We are obviously encouraged by the inputs we are getting. Obviously the responses will vary because some people are responding based on the South Africa we see now, whereas we will have a different South Africa by 2030, so discussion varies from individual to individual, depending on how you see South Africa,
7thspace 19-JUL-11
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[-said]: Such has been our comradeship, premised on values that are far greater and bonds much stronger than the tactical issues about which we need to differ,
news24 23-JUN-11
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[ said]: He did not ever admit to it, but I had a sense that he was a bit disappointed that his legal skills were not called upon,
businessday 23-JUN-11
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[ said]: It is important to understand that decisions take place in the context of world politics. Against that backdrop, I have decided not to avail myself,
allafrica 14-JUN-11
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[-said]: I think a lot more could be done, a lot more should have been done to persuade Europeans that this birthright is not a birthright,
guardian 11-JUN-11
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[-tells]: It is important to understand that decisions take place in the context of world politics .. I have decided not to avail myself,
businessday 10-JUN-11
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[ said]: At 2009 again the issue was raised of a merit based decision but they were not ready for it,
businessday 10-JUN-11
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[-told]: We must continue to campaign for change in that regard and I think we must also put emphasis on changes in the global economy,
businessday 10-JUN-11
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[-said]: I think a lot more could be done, a lot more should have been done. A lot more should have been done to persuade Europeans that this birthright is not a birthright that should find resonance in an institution as important as the IMF,
news24 10-JUN-11
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[-told]: Today is the deadline. I haven't put my hat into the ring as I speak to you,
thetimes 10-JUN-11
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[-said]: Of these nine challenges we feel that two of them are more important. These are that too few South Africans are employed and the quality of education for most black people remains poor.
news24 09-JUN-11
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[-said]: The old order has to pass,
thetimes 24-MAY-11
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[ said]: It's [the wording of the pamphlet is] verbatim what the statement by Lindiwe Mazibuko says,
MailGuardian 10-MAY-11
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[ said]: So that it's not just something that market research companies use, but that it becomes part of the daily discourse of people, so that we understand our surrounds better,
7thspace 19-APR-11
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[-wrote]: I now know who Nelson Mandela was talking about when he said from the dock that he had fought against white domination and that he had fought against black domination — Jimmy, he was talking about fighting against people like you,
ChinaPost 19-APR-11
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[-wrote]: I now know who Nelson Mandela was talking about when he said from the dock that he had fought against white domination and that he had fought against black domination - Jimmy, he was talking about fighting against people like you,
news24 19-APR-11
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[ said]: In fact we perform poorly, even by our own standards,
MailGuardian 16-MAR-11
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[said:]: I don't know what you are talking about. I have no comment.
MailGuardian 14-MAR-11
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[said:]: One of the battles we have is the battle of forgetting and the constitution we have today was not something forced down the throat of the liberation movement by the apartheid regime.
thetimes 03-MAR-11
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[-said that]: Mr Manyi, you may be black, or perhaps you aren’t, because you do not accept that label and would prefer to be ‘only a Xhosa’, whatever the label you choose, I want to put it to you that your behaviour is of the worst-order racist.
MailGuardian 02-MAR-11
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[-pointed out]: Now, in the light of the utterances you have made at a time when you were the DG of the department of labour, and given the fact that the amendments to the Employment Equity Act were drafted during your tenure, I have a sense that your racism has infiltrated the highest echelons of the government.
MailGuardian 02-MAR-11
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[-wrote that]: What did YOU do in the war?
MailGuardian 02-MAR-11
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[-wrote]: are against the letter and spirit of the South African Constitution, as well as being against the values espoused by the Black Management Forum since its inception,
MailGuardian 02-MAR-11
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[ asks]: , which so irritate you, include many who made huge sacrifices in the struggle against apartheid, at a time when people with views like Jimmy Manyi were conspicuous by their absence from the misery of exile, the battles at the barricades and from apartheid's jails. By the way, what did YOU do in the war, Jimmy?
businessday 02-MAR-11
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[ says]: This continued negative behaviour merely serves to confirm the values that you hold, or more precisely, lack thereof. Firstly, why Mr Mona had to issue a statement is beyond comprehension since you distinctly did not utter those racist sentiments as an official of the GCIS,
businessday 02-MAR-11
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[ charged]: I now know who Nelson Mandela was talking about when he said from the dock that he had fought against white domination and that he had fought against black domination,
DailyNation 02-MAR-11
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[said:]: I want to draw to your attention the fact that your statements about
businessday 02-MAR-11
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[ says]: , are the sons and daughters of those who waged the first anti-colonial battles against the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British when they set foot on our shores,
businessday 02-MAR-11
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