Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the European Parliament, Strasbourg: 17 November 2004
… and philosopher, wrote in his multivolume "Natural History": "Ex Africa semper aliquid novi," or for those who … Belgium, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, all one-time colonial powers -- send in their troops. Enough already." … rescue the hapless African masses from weak states. A long history of interaction and interdependence binds Europe and …