Of Course We Run A Very Open

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.

How Many Murders Are Committed In Gauteng, Or In The Western Cape, In A Month? A Week? A Day? An Hour? But Of Course We Are Not Allowed To Know For Sure. In Close And Direct Imitation Of His Apartheid Models, Selebi Ensures That No Statistics About Crime May Be Published Regularly In The Press.

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.

We Would Continue To Handle Our Relations With The Rest Of The Continent With That Kind Of Sensitivity.

China Surely Must Be Interested In A More Stable, Non-antagonistic Relationship With The African Continent Precisely Because Of Its Own Needs. And Therefore Would Have To Say In Our Own Interests, As China, It Is Necessary That We Participate In The Process Of The Development Of The African Continent.