Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), King George Hotel, Athens, 24 February 2005.
… are proud that the ideas of Greek democracy arising from the concept of the City-state, the Council of the Wise, … fury of the two world wars, the countless liberation wars from colonialism and racism, many other regional wars and … were designed by outsiders for Africans, with little input from the Africans themselves. Some of these interventions led …