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'Black man, go home' — what a neo-Nazi said to Thabo Mbeki, in the presence of the Danish prime minister. Extraordinary anecdote from the former South African president, used to underscore the threat to Africa from Europe's far right.

It was the year 2000, and then-president Thabo Mbeki was in Denmark on official business. “We are very close to the coast, right up north, so then the prime minister of Denmark [Poul Nyrup Rasmussen] says, ‘Let’s take a walk to the sea’, which we did,” Mbeki recalls. “As we are walking, I could see — through the corner of [my] eye — I could see somebody coming to join the group.

The man was Esben Rohde Kristensen, a leading member of the National Socialist Movement of Denmark, a local neo-nazi group. The rise of European far-right nationalism is just one of several urgent foreign policy priorities identified by Mbeki during a speech in Pretoria on Monday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Institute for Global Dialogue, a South African foreign policy think tank.

“Just look at the continent. Let’s take just the security element on the continent. I don’t know what, as a country, we are doing to address that matter. I really don’t know what our policy positions are about that matter,” he said.

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