Several years ago we asked the same question:Is Thabo Mbeki fit to rule? At the time, it elicited a furious response from African National Congress representatives and a coterie of others keen to ingratiate themselves with the heir apparent to Nelson Mandela. It was deemed an unfitting question, insulting, arrogant and predictably racist. Today we […]
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/ 12 January 2001
The touch of a king was once believed to cure illness.
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/ 15 September 2000
President Thabo Mbeki either gets his act together on HIV/Aids very soon or he places his presidency at risk. We South Africans are losing the battle against this disease. This is, in no small measure, the result of the refusal by Mbeki to accept the guidance of best science. That refusal is irrational and perverse. […]
Indications that the African National Congress is intent on having the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report rewritten is one aspect of last week’s parliamentary debate on the report which the media appears to have overlooked. A clear hint of this was the repeated reference made in President Nelson Mandela’s speech to the […]
Thabo Mbeki is the mystery man who looms large in South Africa’s future. Gaye Davis spoke to people close to this intensely private personality.
A report card on the new government. By Anton Harber.
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