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Africa Expects Change: Mbeki

South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday that he found a spirit and mood in favor of change as he traveled around Africa.

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South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday that he found a spirit and mood in favor of change as he traveled around Africa.

"This is a moment we cannot lose," Mbeki said when addressing a New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) banquet in Sandton, Johannesburg.

NEPAD, Africa's revival program, was trying something new and difficult, the president said.

"There was no particular reason why Africa should be the victimof war, conflict and poverty," he added.

Mbeki said he wanted the NEPAD business group to be African, not only South African, and that he was pleased by the contribution business had made to NEPAD.

If Wednesday's gathering should reconvene in five years they would see how much progress had been made in ending wars in Africa,Mbeki said.

They would see how "we have worked out of the African politicalsystem," he said, adding that they would also see progress in agricultural development, water supply and infrastructure.

Mbeki said he hoped business people present would have been part of that progress over those five years because if they were not, other business people in the world would have been.

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