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Thabo Mbeki (Paperback)
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Thabo Mbeki (Paperback)
Series: A Jacana pocket biography
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Loot Price R294
Discovery Miles 2 940
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Mbeki was a complex figure, full of contradictions and paradoxes: a
rural child who became an urban sophisticate; a prophet of Africa’s
Renaissance who was also an anglophile; a committed young Marxist
who, while in power, embraced conservative economic policies and
protected white corporate interests; a rational and dispassionate
thinker who was particularly sensitive to criticism and dissent; a
champion of African self-reliance who relied excessively on foreign
capital and promoted a continental economic plan – NEPAD – that was
disproportionately dependent on foreign aid; and a thoughtful
intellectual who supported policies on HIV/AIDS that withheld
antiretroviral drugs from infected people, resulting in hundreds of
thousands of preventable deaths. Thabo Mbeki is the most important
African political figure of his generation and a dominant figure in
South African politics for 14 years. A pan-African philosopher-king
who spent two decades in exile, as president of Africa’s most
industrialised state, he set out a sweeping vision of an African
Renaissance. As a key liberation leader in exile, Mbeki was
instrumental in his party’s anti-apartheid struggle. During the
South African transition, he helped build one of the world’s most
respected constitutional democracies. As president, despite some
successes, he was unable to overcome South Africa’s inherited
socioeconomic challenges, and his disastrous AIDS policies will
remain a major blotch in his legacy. He will, however, be
remembered more as a foreign policy president for his peacemaking
efforts in Africa and in the building of continental institutions
such as the African Union and NEPAD. This book seeks to rescue
Mbeki from South African parochialism and to restore him to a
pan-African pantheon.
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