TOM EATON: We’re not frogs and we won’t die if ANC croaks
21 February 2022 - 20:30
Thabo Mbeki has often been described as an intellectual, reminding us of just how few South Africans have actually met one.
Not that the former president hasn’t flighted some big ideas, of course. His theory that garlic and beetroot could treat Aids better than antiretrovirals was remarkable: history is full of geniuses who died for their ideas, but it takes someone truly special to have 300,000 other people die for his...
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