SOUTH AFRICA: Tony Blair visit: speech at University of South Africa Business School

SOUTH AFRICA: Tony Blair visit: speech at University of South Africa Business School; Blair along to podium / Tony Blair MP (Prime Minister) speech SOT - Thank you very much for coming to listening to me today, context of next week's G8, pay tribute to work of UNISA, not just here in Africa but all over the continent of Africa / My wife had the temerity to suggest that maybe the Open University in UK had greater number of long distance learning students, which Barney (?) swiftly corrected her on, part from India this is probably the largest in the world, congratulations - UNISA is where many of the ANC leaders were educated, plans to launch a new centre for genocide and holocaust studies / To have the opportunity to speak here to such a distinguished audience is a very great honour - Africa is close to my heart, I have made friends right across this amazing and inspiring continent, has been at the top of my foreign policy for the last ten 10 years / From the very beginning I wanted to base that policy on a new partnership with African leaders and countries, not based on rich and poor or donor and recipient but based on common values of justice, democracy and human rights; a partnership of trust and equality - Above all, and most controversially, Africa has been a prime example of a foreign policy that has been advowedly interventionist, I believe in the power of political action to make the world better and the moral obligation to use it - I do not believe that in this time - the early 21st century - international politics can be just about nations' interests, narrowly and traditionally defined / I believe that now, today, our self interest is in substantial part defined by the well-being of others; that the consequence of globalisation is that our best chance of security and prosperity lies in advancing freedom, opportunity and justice for all / It follows that where oppression, poverty and injustice exist, it is not only our duty but also in our self-inte...