Prof Steven Friedman writes that "Mbeki was arguably then the most intelligent head of government in the world". Really? This obsequious admiration despite Thabo Mbeki’s disastrous refusal to accept scientific evidence on HIV/AIDS and his ridiculous pretence that Robert Mugabe’s stolen Zimbabwean election was "essentially free and fair"? Dr Alec WainwrightVia e-mail

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