Never forget that the neoliberal president of South Africa after Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, and his betrayal of Qaddafi, was instrumental in the fall of Libya as a "beginning of the end" moment. Mandela was a staunch ally of Qaddafi, Mbeki the opposite. Mandela and Qaddafi had a plan for an African alliance of sorts that Mbeki just betrayed.
Mandela didn't even want Mbeki to succeed him, he wanted the current South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, to do that. But Ramaphosa decided to go into business instead and become a billionaire (in Rands, but still), and that turned out very badly (see Marikana massacre and Ramaphosa going from dedicated pan Africanist to tepid socdem politically). So the rest of the ANC/tripartheid alliance was kinda conned/forced into picking Mbeki. Which was disastrous.
His AIDS denialism which killed 400 000 people , neoliberal austerity economics that led to rolling electricity blackouts that still exist today by underfunding the state owned electricity supplier, and betrayal of allies from the anti apartheid days was very, very bad. Easily the worst post apartheid president. Worse than even Jacob Zuma imo.
But Mbeki is a media darling in SA and aboard as he's seen as a "pragmatic intellectual" (lmao) so you won't hear about this anywhere.
Never forget that the neoliberal president of South Africa after Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, and his betrayal of Qaddafi, was instrumental in the fall of Libya as a "beginning of the end" moment. Mandela was a staunch ally of Qaddafi, Mbeki the opposite. Mandela and Qaddafi had a plan for an African alliance of sorts that Mbeki just betrayed.
Mandela didn't even want Mbeki to succeed him, he wanted the current South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, to do that. But Ramaphosa decided to go into business instead and become a billionaire (in Rands, but still), and that turned out very badly (see Marikana massacre and Ramaphosa going from dedicated pan Africanist to tepid socdem politically). So the rest of the ANC/tripartheid alliance was kinda conned/forced into picking Mbeki. Which was disastrous.
His AIDS denialism which killed 400 000 people , neoliberal austerity economics that led to rolling electricity blackouts that still exist today by underfunding the state owned electricity supplier, and betrayal of allies from the anti apartheid days was very, very bad. Easily the worst post apartheid president. Worse than even Jacob Zuma imo.
But Mbeki is a media darling in SA and aboard as he's seen as a "pragmatic intellectual" (lmao) so you won't hear about this anywhere.
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I love showing this video to libs