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Mompati Merafhe Quotes

1936–2015

Mompati Merafhe ( born 6th June 1936-died 7 January 2015).Mompati Sebogodi Merafhe was a Motswana politician who was Vice-President of Botswana from 2008 to 2012. He was a retired Lieutenant-General and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 2008.

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Nobody has lost What has won is our ability as Batswana and Namibians to resolve differences peacefully.

It is our view that Africa should not try to undermine the work of the ICC simply because one head of state called Bashir has been indicted by the Court.

We are proud of these achievements and of the support given to us by Japan as the world’s second largest market for diamonds.

The elections were violence shy.But the other three criteria werecertainly lacking. You cannot saythey were transparent, you cannotsay they were fair and you cannotsay they were credible.

I skipped some ranks. I do not know how it feels like to be a Senior Superintendent because I moved straight from Superintendent to Assistant Commissioner of Police.

Our presence here is a demonstration of the Commonwealth’s commitment to work with member states to support the strengthening and deepening of democracy.

If you ask me what the population of Indonesia is or any country in the world, I will tell you.

I do not believe in the notion that Botswana is Africa’s best kept secret. I think that, small as we are, we should be more outward looking in our international relations.

I go all the way to inform myself. To market Botswana, I have to understand details. People do not like abstracts.

Reading is my hobby. No document passes without me reading it. I try to inform myself and when my car radio is not working, the car is not working.

Differences of views become a problem when they erupt into outright hostilities and threaten to tear the group apart; when virtual parties form within a party. That is exactly what happened to the BDP.

Our general sense is that there seems to be a positive mood and people are looking forward to going out to cast their vote next week. It is the duty of all stakeholders to ensure that this positive mood is carried through to the end of the process.

It is important that all stakeholders in the electoral process play their rightful roles to ensure that the wishes of the people of Malawi to chose those who will lead them is done in a free, peaceful and credible manner.

This was a turning point in my career.

If we had not been the founding government and if our economy had been a basket case, the electorate would have sent us packing in the 1994 elections without much ado.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mompati Merafhe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.