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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?
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To: sea_urchin who wrote (508)1/16/2006 2:22:08 PM
From: sea_urchin   of 1267
 
> Mbeki is a Stalinist, like Mugabe, and will tolerate no dissent. He wants dictator-like power and a following of sycophants. The BEE oligarchs were, in fact, marginalized by him because he saw them as political threats and so they went into business.

cbn.co.za

>>Machiavelli Mbeki and Zuma

THIS is not the first time Pres Thabo Mbeki has sorted out a rival. His long road to the presidency is marked by the political graves of those he regarded as threats. Not one of them was defeated in an election; all were the victims of backroom manipulation.

But whereas previous rivals went quietly – mostly into business, where the mechanisms of ‘Affirmative Action’, ‘Black Economic Empowerment’ and ‘Transformation’ blessed them with vast wealth – it is different this time round. The political funeral of Jacob Zuma is not going according to plan.

Until recently Mbeki was firmly in control of the political juggernaut he drives: the only man at the wheel, supported by yes-men who keep the political cargo in place. Not any more. Mbeki is still the only driver, but the juggernaut is swerving all over the road and wheels are coming off. Neither he nor his lieutenants are managing to control the passengers.

Groups within the ANC alliance have gone into open revolt against their president. Unquestioning loyalty has been replaced by hostility, to the extent that his decision on Zuma’s future role within the ANC was overturned by the ANC’s national general council.<<

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