Assessment: Thabo Mbeki – Why has South Africa’s excellent president gone loco?  by David Plotz

Mbeki faces a health catastrophe of

unimaginable proportions. The West keeps

haranguing him to buy drugs that he can’t afford,

without trying to find a solution that he can. For 58

years, he has never succumbed to desperation or

folly, no matter how dire the situation. If South

Africa has become so troubled that even the

unflappable Mbeki is coming unhinged, the world

should worry.

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