Mbeki is outraged at people who say the ANC has betrayed South Africans. He believes the party has had 'challenges'.
Mbeki is outraged at people who say the ANC has betrayed South Africans.One wonders which politicians are worse for a country: looters who plunder everything they can lay their hands on, or those driven by a messianic fervour to transform society into how their ideology dictates it should be? It’s easier to pillory the former, because their greed is obvious… as was the case with the corrupt involved in the state capture project.
It’s easier to pillory the former, because their greed is obvious… as was the case with the corrupt involved in the state capture project. Not quite so easy with the latter, whose negative impact seems to pale by comparison with frenetic stealing.That is certainly the case with former president Thabo Mbeki, who is regarded by many as the man who should have ruled forever over our country.
Driven by his visions of a glorious African Renaissance, Mbeki was not about greed, but about transformation, almost without considering the cost.Yet, what he does have in common with the later looters – and, in his defence, corruption is not an accusation you can pin on Mbeki – is the unswerving loyalty to the ANC. This is a loyalty which is almost blind in not acknowledging faults or in blaming something else, like apartheid, for those faults.
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