Your medical documents will say Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome that is AIDS. What that means you have got this challenge of immune deficiency. Alright what causes immune deficiency? HIV. Alright. Is that all that causes immune deficiency? The medical textbooks will say there are other things that cause immune deficiency. There is also genetic immune deficiency that is a different phenomenon.
Thabo MbekiWhat moved us was not so much what would it do for South Africa, but there has been a great keenness on the Continent that the location of the Pan African Parliament must add to its credibility. And, so we said, fine, it's a contribution to this process of the democratisation of the African Continent.
Thabo MbekiFor the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty
Thabo MbekiAs Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.
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